# § 2443. Notification of employee practices affecting national security
**(a)** **Annual notification of security clearance revocations** At or about the time that the President’s budget is submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, the Administrator shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of—
**(1)** the number of covered employees whose security clearance was revoked during the year prior to the year in which the notification is made; and
**(2)** for each employee counted under paragraph (1), the length of time such employee has been employed at the Administration, as the case may be, since such revocation.
**(b)** **Annual notification of terminations and removals** Not later than December 31 of each year, the Administrator shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of each instance in which the Administrator terminated the employment of a covered employee or removed and reassigned a covered employee for cause during that year.
**(c)** **Definitions** In this section:
**(1)** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
**(A)** the congressional defense committees; and
**(B)** the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.
**(2)** The term “covered employee” means—
**(A)** an employee of the Administration; or
**(B)** an employee of an element of the Department of Energy (other than the Administration) involved in nuclear security.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3245, as added Pub. L. 114–92, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a)(1), Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 1186; amended Pub. L. 117–81, div. C, title XXXI, § 3131(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2229.)
## Editorial Notes
### Prior Provisions
A prior section 2443, , as added , , , 1441A–81, related to prohibition on pay of personnel engaged in concurrent service or duties inside and outside Administration, prior to repeal by , , .
### Amendments
2021—Subsecs. (a), (b). added subsecs. (a) and (b) and struck out former subsecs. (a) and (b), which related to annual notification and notification to congressional committees, respectively.