Title 10 — Armed Forces
Part VI · Chapter 604 — Defense Environmental Cleanup Matters
§ 6176. Defense environmental cleanup technology program
Statutory text
Establishment of Program.—
The Secretary of Energy shall establish and carry out a program of research for the development of technologies useful for—
the reduction of environmental hazards and contamination resulting from defense waste; and
environmental restoration of inactive defense waste disposal sites.
Definitions.—
As used in this section:
The term “defense waste” means waste, including radioactive waste, resulting primarily from atomic energy defense activities of the Department of Energy.
The term “inactive defense waste disposal site” means any site (including any facility) under the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary of Energy which is used for the disposal of defense waste and is closed to the disposal of additional defense waste, including any site that is subject to decontamination and decommissioning.
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.
Pub. L. 119–60 div. C title XXXI § 3111(a) · 139 Stat. 1389
Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 6176
(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1389.)
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. 1389.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2586 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. 1389.)