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50 USC Ch. 42: Front Matter
From Title 50-WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSECHAPTER 42-ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS
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CHAPTER 42-ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS

Sec.
2501.
Definitions.

        

SUBCHAPTER I-ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS

2511.
Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
2512.
Management structure for nuclear security enterprise.
2513.
Restriction on licensing requirement for certain defense activities and facilities.
2514.
Transferred.
2515.
Establishment of Center for Security Technology, Analysis, Response, and Testing.

        

SUBCHAPTER II-NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE MATTERS

Part A-Stockpile Stewardship and Weapons Production

2521.
Stockpile stewardship program.
2522.
Stockpile stewardship criteria.
2523.
Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, management, and responsiveness plan.
2523a.
Repealed.
2523b.
Transferred.
2523c.
Major warhead refurbishment program.
2524.
Stockpile management program.
2524a.
Repealed.
2525.
Annual assessments and reports to the President and Congress regarding the condition of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile.
2526.
Form of certifications regarding the safety or reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
2527.
Nuclear test ban readiness program.
2528, 2528a. Repealed.
2529.
Requirements for specific request for new or modified nuclear weapons.
2530.
Testing of nuclear weapons.
2531.
Repealed.
2532.
Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile.
2533.
Reports on critical difficulties at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities.
2534, 2535.
Repealed.
2536.
Reports on life extension programs.
2537.
Selected Acquisition Reports and independent cost estimates and reviews of certain programs and facilities.
2538.
Advice to President and Congress regarding safety, security, and reliability of United States nuclear weapons stockpile.
2538a.
Plutonium pit production capacity.
2538b.
Stockpile responsiveness program.
2538c.
Long-term plan for meeting national security requirements for unencumbered uranium.
2538d.
Incorporation of integrated surety architecture.
2538e.
W93 nuclear warhead acquisition process.
2538f.
Earned value management and technology readiness levels for life extension programs.

        

Part B-Tritium

2541.
Tritium production program.
2542.
Tritium recycling.
2543.
Repealed.
2544.
Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling facilities.
2545.
Repealed.

        

SUBCHAPTER III-PROLIFERATION MATTERS

2561 to 2564. Repealed.
2565.
Authority to conduct program relating to fissile materials.
2566.
Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site.
2567.
Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.
2568.
Repealed.
2569.
Acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide.
2570, 2571.
Repealed.
2572.
International agreements on nuclear weapons data.
2573.
International agreements on information on radioactive materials.
2574.
Repealed.
2575.
Defense nuclear nonproliferation management plan.
2576.
Information relating to certain defense nuclear nonproliferation programs.
2577.
Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation.

        

SUBCHAPTER IV-DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP MATTERS

Part A-Defense Environmental Cleanup

2581.
Defense Environmental Cleanup Account.
2582.
Requirement to develop future use plans for defense environmental cleanup.
2582a.
Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan.
2583.
Repealed.
2584.
Repealed.
2585.
Accelerated schedule for defense environmental cleanup activities.
2586.
Defense environmental cleanup technology program.
2586a.
Other programs relating to technology development.
2587.
Report on defense environmental cleanup expenditures.
2588.
Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup.
2589.
Policy of Department of Energy regarding future defense environmental management matters.
2590.
Estimation of costs of meeting defense environmental cleanup milestones required by consent orders.
2591.
Public statement of environmental liabilities.

        

Part B-Closure of Facilities

2601.
Repealed.
2602.
Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities.
2603.
Plan for deactivation and decommissioning of nonoperational defense nuclear facilities.

        

Part C-Hanford Reservation, Washington

2621.
Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
2622.
Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms.
2623.
River Protection Project.
2624 to 2626. Repealed.
2627.
Notification regarding air release of radioactive or hazardous material.

        

Part D-Savannah River Site, South Carolina

2631.
Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site.
2632.
Multi-year plan for clean-up.
2633.
Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials.
2634 to 2637. Repealed.
2638.
Repealed.

        

SUBCHAPTER V-SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY MATTERS

Part A-Safeguards and Security

2651.
Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of Restricted Data is certified.
2652.
Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries.
2653.
Background investigations of certain personnel at Department of Energy facilities.
2654.
Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program.
2655.
Repealed.
2656.
Notice to congressional committees of certain security and counterintelligence failures within atomic energy defense programs.
2657.
Annual report and certification on status of security of atomic energy defense facilities.
2658 to 2660. Repealed.
2661.
Protection of certain nuclear facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft.
2662.
Reporting on penetrations of networks of contractors and subcontractors.

        

Part B-Classified Information

2671.
Review of certain documents before declassification and release.
2672.
Protection against inadvertent release of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data.
2673.
Supplement to plan for declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data.
2674.
Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges.
2675.
Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities.

        

SUBCHAPTER VI-PERSONNEL MATTERS

Part A-Personnel Management

2701.
Authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel.
2702.
Whistleblower protection program.
2703.
Repealed.
2704.
Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities workforce restructuring plan.
2705.
Authority to provide certificate of commendation to Department of Energy and contractor employees for exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security.

        

Part B-Education and Training

2721.
Executive management training in Department of Energy.
2722.
Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program.
2723.
Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise.

        

Part C-Worker Safety

2731.
Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities.
2732.
Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear facilities.
2733.
Program to monitor Department of Energy workers exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances.
2734.
Programs for persons who may have been exposed to radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
2735.
Use of probabilistic risk assessment to ensure nuclear safety of facilities of the Administration and the Office of Environmental Management.
2736.
Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents.

        

SUBCHAPTER VII-BUDGET AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MATTERS

Part A-Recurring National Security Authorization Provisions

2741.
Definitions.
2742.
Reprogramming.
2743.
Minor construction projects.
2743a.
General plant projects.
2744.
Limits on construction projects.
2745.
Fund transfer authority.
2746.
Conceptual and construction design.
2747.
Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities.
2748.
Scope of authority to carry out plant projects.
2749.
Availability of funds.
2750.
Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds.
2751.
Transfer of weapons activities funds.
2752.
Funds available for all national security programs of the Department of Energy.
2753.
Notification of cost overruns for certain Department of Energy projects.
2754.
Life-cycle cost estimates of certain atomic energy defense capital assets.
2755.
Matters relating to critical decisions.
2756.
Unfunded priorities of the Administration.
2757.
Review of adequacy of nuclear weapons budget.
2758.
Improvements to cost estimates informing analyses of alternatives.

        

Part B-Penalties

2761.
Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under environmental laws.
2762.
Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under Clean Air Act.

        

Part C-Other Matters

2771.
Repealed.
2772.
Reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities.
2773.
Independent acquisition project reviews of capital assets acquisition projects.

        

SUBCHAPTER VIII-ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Part A-Contracts

2781.
Costs not allowed under covered contracts.
2782.
Prohibition and report on bonuses to contractors operating defense nuclear facilities.
2782a.
Assessments of emergency preparedness of defense nuclear facilities.
2783.
Contractor liability for injury or loss of property arising out of atomic weapons testing programs.
2784.
Notice-and-wait requirement applicable to certain third-party financing arrangements.
2785.
Publication of contractor performance evaluations leading to award fees.
2786.
Enhanced procurement authority to manage supply chain risk.
2787.
Cost-benefit analyses for competition of management and operating contracts.

        

Part B-Research and Development

2791.
Laboratory-directed research and development programs.
2791a.
Laboratory-directed research and development.
2791b.
Charges to individual program, project, or activity.
2792.
Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed research and development purposes.
2793.
Report on use of funds for certain research and development purposes.
2794.
Critical technology partnerships and cooperative research and development centers.
2795.
University-based research collaboration program.
2796.
Limitation on establishing an enduring bioassurance program within the Administration.

        

Part C-Facilities Management

2811.
Transfers of real property at certain Department of Energy facilities.
2812.
Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities.
2813.
Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal or utilization of certain Department of Energy assets.
2814.
Department of Energy energy parks program.

        

Part D-Other Matters

2821.
Repealed.
2822.
Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of infrastructure at Nevada National Security Site.
2823.
University-based defense nuclear policy collaboration program.