---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2424"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2424"
heading: "Procedures relating to access by individuals to classified areas and information of Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2424"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — National Nuclear Security Administration"
  - "Subchapter II — Matters Relating to Security"
---

# §2424. Procedures relating to access by individuals to classified areas and information of Administration


The Administrator shall establish appropriate procedures to ensure that any individual is not permitted unescorted access to any classified area, or access to [classified information](/usc/50/2471.md?p=3), of the Administration until that individual has been verified to hold the appropriate security clearances.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3234, Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 961.)