---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 662"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "662"
heading: "Clearances"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/662"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency"
  - "Part A — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security"
---

# §662. Clearances


The [Secretary](/usc/6/641.md?p=3) shall make available the process of application for security clearances under Executive Order 13549 (75 Fed. Reg. 162;[^1] relating to a classified national security information program) or any successor Executive Order to appropriate representatives of sector coordinating [councils](/usc/6/681.md?p=2), sector [Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations](/usc/6/650.md?p=13), owners and operators of [critical infrastructure](/usc/6/101.md?p=4), and any other person that the [Secretary](/usc/6/641.md?p=3) determines appropriate.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “51609;”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XXII, § 2212, formerly title II, § 229, formerly § 228, as added Pub. L. 113–282, § 7(a), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3070; renumbered § 229, Pub. L. 114–113, div. N, title II, § 223(a)(1), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2963; renumbered title XXII, § 2212, and amended Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(2)(I), (9)(A)(vi), Nov. 16, 2018, 132 Stat. 4178, 4181; Pub. L. 117–263, div. G, title LXXI, § 7143(b)(2)(G), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3660.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Executive Order 13549, referred to in text, is Ex. Ord. No. 13549, Aug. 18, 2010, 75 F.R. 51609, which is set out as a note under section 3161 of Title 50, War and National Defense.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 150 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 115–278.

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations” for “information sharing and analysis organizations (as defined in section 671(5) of this title)”.

2018—Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(9)(A)(vi), substituted “section 671(5) of this title” for “section 131(5) of this title”.