---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7144"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7144"
heading: "Establishment of policy for National Nuclear Security Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7144"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter II — Establishment of Department"
---

# §7144. Establishment of policy for National Nuclear Security Administration

- (a) **Responsibility for establishing policy—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) shall be responsible for establishing policy for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
- (b) **Review of programs and activities—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) may direct officials of the Department who are not within the National Nuclear Security Administration to review the programs and activities of the Administration and to make recommendations to the [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) regarding administration of those programs and activities, including consistency with other similar programs and activities of the Department.
- (c) **Staff—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) shall have adequate staff to support the [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) in carrying out the [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3)’s responsibilities under this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title II, § 213, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3203(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 954.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 1, 2000, see section 3299 of Pub. L. 106–65, set out as a note under section 2401 of Title 50, War and National Defense.