Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 50
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Chapter 42 - Notes
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2501. Definition.
SUBCHAPTER I - ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS
2511. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
2512. Reorganization of field activities and management of
national security functions.
(a) Limitation on delegation of authority.
(b) Requirement to consult with area offices.
(c) Requirement for direct communication from area
offices.
(d) Defense programs reorganization plan and
report.
(e) Defense Programs Management Council.
(f) Covered site operations.
(g) Covered facilities and laboratories.
2513. Restriction on licensing requirement for certain
defense activities and facilities.
SUBCHAPTER II - NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE MATTERS
PART A - STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP AND WEAPONS PRODUCTION
2521. Stockpile stewardship program.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Program elements.
(c) Authorization of appropriations.
2522. Report on stockpile stewardship criteria.
(a) Requirement for criteria.
(b) Coordination with Secretary of Defense.
(c) Report.
2523. Plan for stewardship, management, and certification of
warheads in the nuclear weapons stockpile.
(a) Plan requirement.
(b) Plan elements.
(c) Annual submission of plan to Congress.
2524. Nuclear weapons stockpile life extension program.
(a) Program required.
(b) Administrative responsibility for program.
(c) Program plan.
(d) Annual submittal of plan.
(e) GAO assessment.
(f) Sense of Congress regarding funding of program.
2525. Annual assessments and reports to the President and
Congress regarding the condition of the United States
nuclear weapons stockpile.
(a) Annual assessments required.
(b) Covered officials.
(c) Use of teams of experts for assessments.
(d) Report on assessments.
(e) Submittals to the President and Congress.
(f) Classified form.
(g) Definitions.
(h) First submissions.
2526. Form of certifications regarding the safety or
reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
2527. Nuclear test ban readiness program.
(a) Findings.
(b) Establishment of program.
(c) Purposes of program.
(d) Conduct of program.
2528. Study on nuclear test readiness postures.
(a) Report.
(b) Biennial update report.
2528a. Readiness posture for resumption by the United States
of underground nuclear weapons tests.
(a) Readiness posture required.
(b) Description of requirement.
2529. Requirements for specific request for new or modified
nuclear weapons.
(a) Requirement for request for funds for
development.
(b) Budget request format.
(c) Exception.
(d) Definitions.
2530. Limitation on underground nuclear weapons tests.
2531. Testing of nuclear weapons.
(a) In general.
(b) Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
2532. Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and
certification of nuclear weapons stockpile.
(a) Manufacturing program.
(b) Required capabilities.
(c) Nuclear Posture Review.
(d) Funding.
(e) Plan and report.
2533. Reports on critical difficulties at nuclear weapons
laboratories and nuclear weapons production plants.
(a) Reports by heads of laboratories and plants.
(b) Transmittal by Assistant Secretary.
(c) Omitted.
(d) Inclusion of reports in annual stockpile
certification.
(e) Definitions.
PART B - TRITIUM
2541. Tritium production program.
(a) Establishment of program.
(b) Funding.
(c) Location of tritium production facility.
(d) Cost-benefit analysis.
(e) Report.
(f) Tritium targets.
2542. Tritium recycling.
(a) In general.
(b) Exception.
2543. Tritium production.
(a) New tritium production facility.
(b) In-reactor tests.
2544. Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling
facilities.
(a) In general.
(b) Funding.
2545. Procedures for meeting tritium production
requirements.
(a) Production of new tritium.
(b) Support.
(c) Design and engineering development.
SUBCHAPTER III - PROLIFERATION MATTERS
2561. International cooperative stockpile stewardship.
(a) Funding prohibition.
(b) Exceptions.
2562. Nonproliferation initiatives and activities.
(a) Initiative for Proliferation Prevention
program.
(b) Nuclear Cities Initiative.
(c) Report.
(d) Nuclear Cities Initiative defined.
2563. Annual report on status of Nuclear Materials
Protection, Control, and Accounting Program.
(a) Report required.
(b) Contents.
(c) Limitation on use of certain funds.
2564. Nuclear Cities Initiative.
(a) In general.
(b) Funding for fiscal year 2001.
(c) Limitation pending submission of agreement.
(d) Limitation pending implementation of project
review procedures.
(e) Limitation pending certification and report.
(f) Plan for restructuring the Russian nuclear
complex.
(g) Encouragement of careers in nonproliferation.
(h) Definitions.
2565. Authority to conduct program relating to fissile
materials.
2566. Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah
River Site.
(a) Plan for construction and operation of MOX
facility.
(b) Corrective actions.
(c) Contingent requirement for removal of plutonium
and materials from Savannah River Site.
(d) Economic and impact assistance.
(e) Failure to complete planned disposition
program.
(f) Removal of mixed-oxide fuel upon completion of
operations of MOX facility.
(g) Definitions.
2567. Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah
River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.
(a) Consultation required.
(b) Notice required.
(c) Plan for disposition.
(d) Plan for alternative disposition.
(e) Submission of plans.
(f) Limitation on plutonium shipments.
(g) Rule of construction.
(h) Annual report on funding for fissile materials
disposition activities.
2568. Authority to use international nuclear materials
protection and cooperation program funds outside the
former Soviet Union.
(a) Authority.
(b) Scope of authority.
(c) Limitation on total amount of obligation.
(d) Limitation on availability of funds.
(e) Additional limitations and requirements.
(f) Funds.
SUBCHAPTER IV - ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
MATTERS
PART A - ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
2581. Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management
Account.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Amounts in Account.
2582. Requirement to develop future use plans for
environmental management programs.
(a) Authority to develop future use plans.
(b) Requirement to develop future use plans.
(c) Citizen advisory board.
(d) Requirement to consult with citizen advisory
board.
(e) 50-year planning period.
(f) Deadlines.
(g) Report.
(h) Savings provisions.
2583. Integrated fissile materials management plan.
(a) Plan.
(b) Submittal to Congress.
2584. Baseline environmental management reports.
(a) Annual environmental restoration reports.
(b) Biennial waste management reports.
(c) Contents of reports.
(d) Biennial status and variance reports.
(e) Compliance tracking.
(f) Public participation in development of
information.
2585. Accelerated schedule for environmental restoration and
waste management activities.
(a) Accelerated cleanup.
(b) Consideration of factors.
(c) Report.
(d) Savings provision.
2586. Defense waste cleanup technology program.
(a) Establishment of program.
(b) Coordination of research activities.
(c) Definitions.
2587. Report on environmental restoration expenditures.
2588. Public participation in planning for environmental
restoration and waste management at defense nuclear
facilities.
2589. Policy of Department of Energy regarding future
defense environmental management matters.
(a) Policy required.
(b) Reflection in budget.
(c) Consultation.
(d) Report.
PART B - CLOSURE OF FACILITIES
2601. Projects to accelerate closure activities at defense
nuclear facilities.
(a) In general.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Eligible projects.
(d) Program administration.
(e) Selection of projects.
(f) Multiyear contracts.
(g) Funding.
(h) Annual report.
(i) Duration of program.
(j) Savings provision.
2602. Reports in connection with permanent closures of
Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities.
(a) Training and job placement services plan.
(b) Closure report.
PART C - PRIVATIZATION
2611. Defense environmental management privatization
projects.
(a) Authority to enter into contracts.
(b) Notice and wait.
(c) Cost variations.
(d) Use of funds for termination of contract.
(e) Annual report on contracts.
(f) Assessment of contracting without sufficient
appropriations.
PART D - HANFORD RESERVATION, WASHINGTON
2621. Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear
Reservation.
(a) Identification and monitoring of tanks.
(b) Action plans.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Report.
2622. Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms.
(a) Establishment of Office of River Protection.
(b) Management and responsibilities of Office.
(c) Department responsibilities.
(d) Report.
(e) Report.
(f) Termination.
2623. River Protection Project.
2624. Funding for termination costs of River Protection
Project, Richland, Washington.
PART E - 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. Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposition
of legacy nuclear materials.
2635. Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposition
of legacy nuclear materials.
2636. Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of
legacy nuclear materials.
2637. Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of
legacy nuclear materials.
2638. Limitation on use of funds for decommissioning
F-canyon facility.
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.
(a) Prohibition on inspections.
(b) Omitted.
(c) Restricted data defined.
2652. Restrictions on access to national laboratories by
foreign visitors from sensitive countries.
(a) Background review required.
(b) Moratorium pending certification.
(c) Waiver of moratorium.
(d) Exception to moratorium for certain
individuals.
(e) Exception to moratorium for certain programs.
(f) Sense of Congress regarding background reviews.
(g) Definitions.
2653. Background investigations of certain personnel at
Department of Energy facilities.
(a) In general.
(b) Compliance.
(c) Definitions.
2654. Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph
program.
(a) New counterintelligence polygraph program
required.
(b) Authorities and limitations.
(c) Omitted.
(d) Report on further enhancement of personnel
security program.
(e) Polygraph Review defined.
2655. Counterintelligence polygraph program.
(a) Program required.
(b) Covered persons.
(c) High-risk programs.
(d) Initial testing and consent.
(e) Additional testing.
(f) Counterintelligence polygraph examination.
(g) Regulations.
(h) Plan for extension of program.
2656. Notice to congressional committees of certain security
and counterintelligence failures within nuclear
energy defense programs.
(a) Required notification.
(b) Significant nuclear defense intelligence
losses.
(c) Manner of notification.
(d) Procedures.
(e) Statutory construction.
2657. Submittal of annual report on status of security
functions at nuclear weapons facilities.
2658. Report on counterintelligence and security practices
at national laboratories.
(a) In general.
(b) Content of report.
(c) National laboratory defined.
2659. Report on security vulnerabilities of national
laboratory computers.
(a) Report required.
(b) Preparation of report.
(c) Submission of report to Secretary of Energy and
to FBI Director.
(d) Forwarding to congressional committees.
(e) First report.
(f) National laboratory defined.
PART B - CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
2671. Review of certain documents before declassification
and release.
(a) In general.
(b) Limitation on declassification.
(c) Restricted data defined.
2672. Protection against inadvertent release of Restricted
Data and Formerly Restricted Data.
(a) Plan for protection against release.
(b) Plan elements.
(c) Limitation on declassification of certain
records.
(d) Submission of plan.
(e) Submission of reviews.
(f) Report and notification regarding inadvertent
releases.
(g) Definition.
2673. Supplement to plan for declassification of Restricted
Data and Formerly Restricted Data.
(a) Supplement to plan.
(b) Contents of supplement.
(c) Limitation on declassification of records.
(d) Submission of supplement.
2674. Protection of classified information during
laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges.
(a) Provision of training.
(b) Countering of espionage and
intelligence-gathering abroad.
2675. Identification in budget materials of amounts for
declassification activities and limitation on
expenditures for such activities.
(a) Amounts for declassification of records.
(b) Certification required with respect to
automatic declassification of records.
(c) Report on automatic declassification of
Department of Energy records.
PART C - EMERGENCY RESPONSE
2691. Responsibility for Defense Programs Emergency Response
Program.
SUBCHAPTER VI - PERSONNEL MATTERS
PART A - PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
2701. Authority for appointment of certain scientific,
engineering, and technical personnel.
(a) Authority.
(b) OPM review.
(c) Termination.
2702. Whistleblower protection program.
(a) Program required.
(b) Covered individuals.
(c) Protected disclosures.
(d) Persons and entities to which disclosures may
be made.
(e) Official capacity of persons to whom
information is disclosed.
(f) Assistance and guidance.
(g) Regulations.
(h) Notification to covered individuals.
(i) Complaint by covered individuals.
(j) Investigation by Office of Hearings and
Appeals.
(k) Remedial action.
(l) Relationship to other laws.
(m) Annual report.
(n) Implementation report.
2703. Employee incentives for employees at closure project
facilities.
(a) Authority to provide incentives.
(b) Eligible employees.
(c) Closure facility defined.
(d) Incentives.
(e) Agreement.
(f) Violation of agreement.
(g) Report.
(h) Omitted.
(i) Authority with respect to voluntary
separations.
(j) Termination.
2704. Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities
workforce restructuring plan.
(a) In general.
(b) Consultation.
(c) Objectives.
(d) Implementation.
(e) Plan updates.
(f) Submittal to Congress.
(g) Department of Energy defense nuclear facility
defined.
2705. Authority to provide certificate of commendation to
Department of Energy and contractor employees for
exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and
security.
(a) Authority to present certificate of
commendation.
(b) Certificate.
(c) Department of Energy defined.
PART B - EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2721. Executive management training in Department of Energy.
(a) Establishment of training program.
(b) Training provisions.
2722. Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training
program.
(a) Conduct of program.
(b) Support of dual-use programs.
(c) Establishment of retiree corps.
(d) Report.
2723. Fellowship program for development of skills critical
to the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex.
(a) In general.
(b) Eligible individuals.
(c) Covered facilities.
(d) Administration.
(e) Allocation of funds.
(f) Agreement.
PART C - WORKER SAFETY
2731. Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities.
(a) Training grant program.
(b) Enforcement of employee safety standards.
(c) Regulations.
(d) Definitions.
(e) Funding.
2732. Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear
facilities.
(a) Safety at defense nuclear facilities.
(b) Report.
2733. Program to monitor Department of Energy workers
exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances.
(a) In general.
(b) Implementation of program.
(c) Agreement with Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
(d) Definitions.
2734. Programs for persons who may have been exposed to
radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
(a) Funding.
(b) Programs.
(c) Plan and reports.
(d) Prohibition on disclosure of exposure
information.
SUBCHAPTER VII - BUDGET AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MATTERS
PART A - RECURRING NATIONAL SECURITY AUTHORIZATION PROVISIONS
2741. Definitions.
2742. Reprogramming.
(a) In general.
(b) Exception where notice-and-wait given.
(c) Report.
(d) Computation of days.
(e) Limitations.
2743. Minor construction projects.
(a) Authority.
(b) Annual report.
(c) Cost variation reports to congressional
committees.
(d) Minor construction project defined.
2744. Limits on construction projects.
(a) Construction cost ceiling.
(b) Exception where notice-and-wait given.
(c) Computation of days.
(d) Exception for minor projects.
2745. Fund transfer authority.
(a) Transfer to other Federal agencies.
(b) Transfer within Department of Energy.
(c) Limitations.
(d) Notice to Congress.
2746. Conceptual and construction design.
(a) Conceptual design.
(b) Construction design.
2747. Authority for emergency planning, design, and
construction activities.
(a) Authority.
(b) Limitation.
(c) Specific authority.
2748. Scope of authority to carry out plant projects.
2749. Availability of funds.
(a) In general.
(b) Exception for program direction funds.
2750. Transfer of defense environmental management funds.
(a) Transfer authority for defense environmental
management funds.
(b) Limitations.
(c) Exemption from reprogramming requirements.
(d) Notification.
(e) Definitions.
2751. Transfer of weapons activities funds.
(a) Transfer authority for weapons activities
funds.
(b) Limitations.
(c) Exemption from reprogramming requirements.
(d) Notification.
(e) Definitions.
2752. Funds available for all national security programs of
the Department of Energy.
PART B - PENALTIES
2761. Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under
environmental laws.
(a) Restriction.
(b) Exception.
2762. Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under
Clean Air Act.
PART C - OTHER MATTERS
2771. Single request for authorization of appropriations for
common defense and security programs.
SUBCHAPTER VIII - ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
PART A - CONTRACTS
2781. Costs not allowed under covered contracts.
(a) In general.
(b) Regulations; costs of information provided to
Congress or State legislatures and related
costs.
(c) "Covered contract" defined.
(d) Effective date.
2782. Prohibition and report on bonuses to contractors
operating defense nuclear facilities.
(a) Prohibition.
(b) Report on Rocky Flats bonuses.
(c) "Department of Energy defense nuclear facility"
defined.
(d) Regulations.
2783. Contractor liability for injury or loss of property
arising out of atomic weapons testing programs.
(a) Short title.
(b) Federal remedies applicable; exclusiveness of
remedies.
(c) Procedure.
(d) Actions covered.
(e) "Contractor" defined.
PART B - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
2791. Laboratory-directed research and development programs.
(a) Authority.
(b) Regulations.
(c) Funding.
(d) "Laboratory-directed research and development"
defined.
2792. Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed
research and development purposes.
(a) General limitations.
(b) Limitation in fiscal year 1998 pending
submittal of annual report.
(c) Omitted.
(d) Assessment of funding level for laboratory
directed research and development.
(e) "Laboratory directed research and development"
defined.
2793. Limitation on use of funds for certain research and
development purposes.
(a) Limitation.
(b) Annual report.
2794. Critical technology partnerships.
(a) Partnerships.
(b) Definitions.
2795. University-based research collaboration program.
(a) Findings.
(b) Program.
(c) Funding.
PART C - FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
2811. Transfers of real property at certain Department of
Energy facilities.
(a) Transfer regulations.
(b) Indemnification.
(c) Conditions.
(d) Authority of Secretary of Energy.
(e) Relationship to other law.
(f) Definitions.
2812. Engineering and manufacturing research, development,
and demonstration by plant managers of certain
nuclear weapons production plants.
(a) Authority for programs at nuclear weapons
productions facilities.
(b) Projects and activities.
(c) Funding.
(d) Report.
(e) Definition.
2813. Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal
or utilization of certain Department of Energy
assets.
(a) Purpose.
(b) Use of proceeds to defray costs.
(c) Covered transactions.
(d) Applicability of disposal authority.
(e) Report.
PART D - OTHER MATTERS
2821. Semiannual reports on local impact assistance.
2822. Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of
infrastructure at Nevada Test Site.
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