---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8121"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8121"
heading: "Requirement for authority to conduct complementary access"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8121"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—united States Additional Protocol Implementation"
  - "Subchapter II — Complementary Access"
---

# §8121. Requirement for authority to conduct complementary access

- (a) **Prohibition—** No [complementary access](/usc/22/8102.md?p=3) to any [location](/usc/22/8102.md?p=8) in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) shall take place pursuant to the [Additional Protocol](/usc/22/8102.md?p=1) without the authorization of the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) Government in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
- (b) **Authority—**
  - (1) **In general—** [Complementary access](/usc/22/8102.md?p=3) to any [location](/usc/22/8102.md?p=8) in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) subject to access under the [Additional Protocol](/usc/22/8102.md?p=1) is authorized in accordance with this chapter.
  - (2) **United States representatives—**
    - (A) **Restrictions—** In the event of [complementary access](/usc/22/8102.md?p=3) to a privately owned or operated [location](/usc/22/8102.md?p=8), no employee of the Environmental Protection Agency or of the Mine Safety and Health Administration or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor may participate in the access.
    - (B) **Number—** The number of designated [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) representatives accompanying [IAEA](/usc/22/8102.md?p=6) inspectors shall be kept to the minimum necessary.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 221, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2744.)