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US CodeTitle 50Chapter 42

Chapter 42

ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS

Title 50 - War and National Defense

129 sections

Sections

§ 2501

Definitions

Medium

§ 2511

Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

Very short

§ 2512

Management structure for nuclear security enterprise

Short

§ 2513

Restriction on licensing requirement for certain defense activities and facilities

Very short

§ 2515

Establishment of Center for Security Technology, Analysis, Response, and Testing

Short

§ 2521

Stockpile stewardship program

Medium

§ 2522

Stockpile stewardship criteria

Short

§ 2523

Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, management, and responsiveness plan

Very long

§ 2523c

Major warhead refurbishment program

Short

§ 2524

Stockpile management program

Medium

§ 2525

Annual assessments and reports to the President and Congress regarding the condition of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile

Long

§ 2526

Form of certifications regarding the safety or reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile

Very short

§ 2527

Nuclear test ban readiness program

Short

§ 2529

Requirements for specific request for new or modified nuclear weapons

Medium

§ 2530

Testing of nuclear weapons

Short

§ 2532

Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile

Short

§ 2533

Reports on critical difficulties at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities

Short

§ 2537

Selected Acquisition Reports and independent cost estimates and reviews of certain programs and facilities

Medium

§ 2538

Advice to President and Congress regarding safety, security, and reliability of United States nuclear weapons stockpile

Medium

§ 2538a

Plutonium pit production capacity

Long

§ 2538b

Stockpile responsiveness program

Medium

§ 2538c

Long-term plan for meeting national security requirements for unencumbered uranium

Medium

§ 2538d

Incorporation of integrated surety architecture

Short

§ 2538e

W93 nuclear warhead acquisition process

Medium

§ 2538f

Earned value management and technology readiness levels for life extension programs

Short

§ 2541

Tritium production program

Short

§ 2542

Tritium recycling

Short

§ 2544

Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling facilities

Very short

§ 2565

Authority to conduct program relating to fissile materials

Very short

§ 2566

Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site

Long

§ 2567

Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina

Medium

§ 2569

Acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide

Long

§ 2572

International agreements on nuclear weapons data

Very short

§ 2573

International agreements on information on radioactive materials

Short

§ 2575

Defense nuclear nonproliferation management plan

Long

§ 2576

Information relating to certain defense nuclear nonproliferation programs

Short

§ 2577

Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation

Short

§ 2581

Defense Environmental Cleanup Account

Short

§ 2582

Requirement to develop future use plans for defense environmental cleanup

Medium

§ 2582a

Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan

Medium

§ 2585

Accelerated schedule for defense environmental cleanup activities

Short

§ 2586

Defense environmental cleanup technology program

Short

§ 2586a

Other programs relating to technology development

Long

§ 2587

Report on defense environmental cleanup expenditures

Short

§ 2588

Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup

Very short

§ 2589

Policy of Department of Energy regarding future defense environmental management matters

Short

§ 2590

Estimation of costs of meeting defense environmental cleanup milestones required by consent orders

Short

§ 2591

Public statement of environmental liabilities

Very short

§ 2602

Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities

Short

§ 2603

Plan for deactivation and decommissioning of nonoperational defense nuclear facilities

Medium

§ 2621

Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Short

§ 2622

Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms

Medium

§ 2623

River Protection Project

Very short

§ 2627

Notification regarding air release of radioactive or hazardous material

Short

§ 2631

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

Very short

§ 2632

Multi-year plan for clean-up

Very short

§ 2633

Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials

Very short

§ 2651

Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of Restricted Data is certified

Very short

§ 2652

Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries

Medium

§ 2653

Background investigations of certain personnel at Department of Energy facilities

Very short

§ 2654

Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program

Short

§ 2656

Notice to congressional committees of certain security and counterintelligence failures within atomic energy defense programs

Medium

§ 2657

Annual report and certification on status of security of atomic energy defense facilities

Medium

§ 2661

Protection of certain nuclear facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft

Medium

§ 2662

Reporting on penetrations of networks of contractors and subcontractors

Long

§ 2671

Review of certain documents before declassification and release

Short

§ 2672

Protection against inadvertent release of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data

Medium

§ 2673

Supplement to plan for declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data

Short

§ 2674

Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges

Short

§ 2675

Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities

Short

§ 2701

Authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel

Medium

§ 2702

Whistleblower protection program

Long

§ 2704

Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities workforce restructuring plan

Long

§ 2705

Authority to provide certificate of commendation to Department of Energy and contractor employees for exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security

Short

§ 2721

Executive management training in Department of Energy

Short

§ 2722

Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program

Short

§ 2723

Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise

Medium

§ 2731

Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities

Medium

§ 2732

Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear facilities

Short

§ 2733

Program to monitor Department of Energy workers exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances

Medium

§ 2734

Programs for persons who may have been exposed to radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Medium

§ 2735

Use of probabilistic risk assessment to ensure nuclear safety of facilities of the Administration and the Office of Environmental Management

Short

§ 2736

Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents

Medium

§ 2741

Definitions

Short

§ 2742

Reprogramming

Short

§ 2743

Minor construction projects

Short

§ 2743a

General plant projects

Very short

§ 2744

Limits on construction projects

Short

§ 2745

Fund transfer authority

Short

§ 2746

Conceptual and construction design

Short

§ 2747

Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities

Short

§ 2748

Scope of authority to carry out plant projects

Very short

§ 2749

Availability of funds

Short

§ 2750

Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds

Medium

§ 2751

Transfer of weapons activities funds

Medium

§ 2752

Funds available for all national security programs of the Department of Energy

Very short

§ 2753

Notification of cost overruns for certain Department of Energy projects

Long

§ 2754

Life-cycle cost estimates of certain atomic energy defense capital assets

Short

§ 2755

Matters relating to critical decisions

Short

§ 2756

Unfunded priorities of the Administration

Medium

§ 2757

Review of adequacy of nuclear weapons budget

Short

§ 2758

Improvements to cost estimates informing analyses of alternatives

Short

§ 2761

Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under environmental laws

Short

§ 2762

Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under Clean Air Act

Short

§ 2772

Reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities

Medium

§ 2773

Independent acquisition project reviews of capital assets acquisition projects

Short

§ 2781

Costs not allowed under covered contracts

Medium

§ 2782

Prohibition and report on bonuses to contractors operating defense nuclear facilities

Short

§ 2782a

Assessments of emergency preparedness of defense nuclear facilities

Short

§ 2783

Contractor liability for injury or loss of property arising out of atomic weapons testing programs

Medium

§ 2784

Notice-and-wait requirement applicable to certain third-party financing arrangements

Short

§ 2785

Publication of contractor performance evaluations leading to award fees

Short

§ 2786

Enhanced procurement authority to manage supply chain risk

Long

§ 2787

Cost-benefit analyses for competition of management and operating contracts

Long

§ 2791

Laboratory-directed research and development programs

Short

§ 2791a

Laboratory-directed research and development

Short

§ 2791b

Charges to individual program, project, or activity

Very short

§ 2792

Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed research and development purposes

Short

§ 2793

Report on use of funds for certain research and development purposes

Short

§ 2794

Critical technology partnerships and cooperative research and development centers

Medium

§ 2795

University-based research collaboration program

Short

§ 2796

Limitation on establishing an enduring bioassurance program within the Administration

Short

§ 2811

Transfers of real property at certain Department of Energy facilities

Medium

§ 2812

Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities

Short

§ 2813

Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal or utilization of certain Department of Energy assets

Medium

§ 2814

Department of Energy energy parks program

Medium

§ 2815

Authority to use passenger carriers for contractor commuting

Medium

§ 2822

Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of infrastructure at Nevada National Security Site

Very short

§ 2823

University-based defense nuclear policy collaboration program

Short