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Title 10 — Armed Forces

Part VI · Chapter 602 — Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Matters

§ 6113. Stockpile stewardship criteria

Statutory text

(a)

Requirement for Criteria.—

The Secretary of Energy shall develop clear and specific criteria for judging whether the science-based tools being used by the Department of Energy for determining the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile are performing in a manner that will provide an adequate degree of certainty that the stockpile is safe and reliable.

(b)

Coordination With Secretary of Defense.—

The Secretary of Energy, in developing the criteria required by subsection (a), shall coordinate with the Secretary of Defense.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 119–60 div. C title XXXI § 3111(a) · 139 Stat. 1345

    Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 6113

    (Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1345.)

    Unresolved: Pub. L. 119–60 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1345.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 6113 was renumbered section 8253 of this title.

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2522 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), , 139 Stat. 1345.)

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