---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8121"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8121"
heading: "Requirement for authority to conduct complementary access"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8121"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—united States Additional Protocol Implementation"
  - "Subchapter II — Complementary Access"
---

# §8121. Requirement for authority to conduct complementary access

- (a) **Prohibition—** No [complementary access](/usc/22/8102.md?p=3) to any [location](/usc/22/8102.md?p=8) in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) shall take place pursuant to the [Additional Protocol](/usc/22/8102.md?p=1) without the authorization of the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) Government in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
- (b) **Authority—**
  - (1) **In general—** [Complementary access](/usc/22/8102.md?p=3) to any [location](/usc/22/8102.md?p=8) in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) subject to access under the [Additional Protocol](/usc/22/8102.md?p=1) is authorized in accordance with this chapter.
  - (2) **United States representatives—**
    - (A) **Restrictions—** In the event of [complementary access](/usc/22/8102.md?p=3) to a privately owned or operated [location](/usc/22/8102.md?p=8), no [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection Agency or of the Mine Safety and Health Administration or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor may participate in the access.
    - (B) **Number—** The number of designated [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) representatives accompanying [IAEA](/usc/22/8102.md?p=6) inspectors shall be kept to the minimum necessary.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 221, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2744.)