---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2409"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2409"
heading: "Scope of authority of Secretary of Energy to modify organization of Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2409"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — National Nuclear Security Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Organization"
---

# §2409. Scope of authority of Secretary of Energy to modify organization of Administration


Notwithstanding the authority granted by [section 7253 of title 42](/usc/42/7253.md) or any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy may not establish, abolish, alter, consolidate, or discontinue any organizational unit or component, or transfer any function, of the Administration, except as authorized by subsection (b) or (c) of [section 2481 of this title](/usc/50/2481.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3219, as added Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(2) [title III, § 314(a)], Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–81.)