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 PUBLIC LAW 109–58—AUG. 8, 2005

119 STAT. 811

(B) by striking ‘‘All fingerprints obtained by a licensee or applicant as required in the preceding sentence’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘(2) All fingerprints obtained by an individual or entity as required in paragraph (1)’’; (C) by striking ‘‘The costs of any identification and records check conducted pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be paid by the licensee or applicant.’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘(3) The costs of an identification or records check under paragraph (2) shall be paid by the individual or entity required to conduct the fingerprinting under paragraph (1)(A).’’; and (D) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney General may provide all the results of the search to the Commission, and, in accordance with regulations prescribed under this section, the Commission may provide such results to licensee or applicant submitting such fingerprints.’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law— ‘‘(A) the Attorney General may provide any result of an identification or records check under paragraph (2) to the Commission; and ‘‘(B) the Commission, in accordance with regulations prescribed under this section, may provide the results to the individual or entity required to conduct the fingerprinting under paragraph (1)(A).’’; (2) in subsection c.— (A) by striking ‘‘, subject to public notice and comment, regulations—’’ and inserting ‘‘requirements—’’; and (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘unescorted access to the facility of a licensee or applicant’’ and inserting ‘‘unescorted access to a utilization facility, radioactive material, or other property described in subsection a.(1)(B)’’; (3) by redesignating subsection d. as subsection e.; and (4) by inserting after subsection c. the following: ‘‘d. The Commission may require a person or individual to conduct fingerprinting under subsection a.(1) by authorizing or requiring the use of any alternative biometric method for identification that has been approved by— ‘‘(1) the Attorney General; and ‘‘(2) the Commission, by regulation.’’. SEC. 653. USE OF FIREARMS BY SECURITY PERSONNEL.

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is amended by inserting after section 161 (42 U.S.C. 2201) the following: ‘‘SEC. 161A. USE OF FIREARMS BY SECURITY PERSONNEL.

42 USC 2201a.

‘‘a. DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘handgun’, ‘rifle’, ‘shotgun’, ‘firearm’, ‘ammunition’, ‘machinegun’, ‘short-barreled shotgun’, and ‘short-barreled rifle’ have the meanings given the terms in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code. ‘‘b. AUTHORIZATION.—Notwithstanding subsections (a)(4), (a)(5), (b)(2), (b)(4), and (o) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code, section 925(d)(3) of title 18, United States Code, section 5844 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and any law (including regulations) of a State or a political subdivision of a State that prohibits the transfer, receipt, possession, transportation, importation, or use of a handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, a short-barreled shotgun, a short-

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