Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§2096 Acquisition of source material; payments
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - SOURCE MATERIAL › § 2096
Summary
The Commission may, when needed, buy or lawfully take supplies of source material. It may also buy or take land with source material, and buy or get the right to enter land to look for and test deposits.
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Title 42, §2096
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The Commission is authorized and directed, to the extent it deems necessary to effectuate the provisions of this chapter—
(a)to purchase, take, requisition, condemn, or otherwise acquire supplies of source material;
(b)to purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire any interest in real property containing deposits of source material; and
(c)to purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire rights to enter upon any real property deemed by the Commission to have possibilities of containing deposits of source material in order to conduct prospecting and exploratory operations for such deposits.
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References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919, known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables. Codification In text, “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1805(b)(5) of this title, prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act Aug. 1, 1946, by act Aug. 30, 1954.
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42 U.S.C. § 2096
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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