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Title 10 — Armed Forces

Part VI · Chapter 604 — Defense Environmental Cleanup Matters

§ 6211. Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site

Statutory text

The Secretary of Energy shall accelerate the schedule for the isolation of high-level nuclear waste in glass canisters at the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, if the Secretary determines that the acceleration of such schedule—

(1)

will achieve long-term cost savings to the Federal Government; and

(2)

could accelerate the removal and isolation of high-level nuclear waste from long-term storage tanks at the site.

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. 1401

    Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 6211

    (Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1401.)

    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. 1401.)

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 2631 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. 1401.)

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