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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§6176 Defense environmental cleanup technology program

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART VI— - ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart Subpart B— - Atomic Energy Defense › Chapter CHAPTER 604— - DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP MATTERS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP › § 6176

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must create and run a research program to develop technologies that cut environmental hazards and contamination from defense waste and that help restore sites where such waste was disposed but are no longer taking more waste. Defense waste: waste, including radioactive material, that comes mainly from the Department of Energy’s atomic energy defense work. Inactive defense waste disposal site: any DOE-controlled place used to dispose of that waste that is closed to new waste, including places being cleaned up or taken apart.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §6176

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of Energy shall establish and carry out a program of research for the development of technologies useful for—
(1)the reduction of environmental hazards and contamination resulting from defense waste; and
(2)environmental restoration of inactive defense waste disposal sites.
(b)As used in this section:
(1)The term “defense waste” means waste, including radioactive waste, resulting primarily from atomic energy defense activities of the Department of Energy.
(2)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.

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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).

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 6176

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73