Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§2901 Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 172 — STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM › § 2901

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must create a program called the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. The program must fund basic and practical research to make technologies that help the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy meet their environmental duties. It must find and share useful DOD and DOE research with government and private groups working on energy, cleanup, waste reduction, and other environmental problems. It must give others better data and tools for environmental studies, including global environmental change, and it must find private-sector technologies for cleanup, waste prevention, and safer material substitutes and arrange to use them.

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Title 10, §2901

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of Defense shall establish a program to be known as the “Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program”.

(b)The purposes of the program are as follows:

(1)To address environmental matters of concern to the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy through support for basic and applied research and development of technologies that can enhance the capabilities of the departments to meet their environmental obligations.

(2)To identify research, technologies, and other information developed by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy for national defense purposes that would be useful to governmental and private organizations involved in the development of energy technologies and of technologies to address environmental restoration, waste minimization, hazardous waste substitution, and other environmental concerns, and to share such research, technologies, and other information with such governmental and private organizations.

(3)To furnish other governmental organizations and private organizations with data, enhanced data collection capabilities, and enhanced analytical capabilities for use by such organizations in the conduct of environmental research, including research concerning global environmental change.

(4)To identify technologies developed by the private sector that are useful for Department of Defense and Department of Energy defense activities concerning environmental restoration, hazardous and solid waste minimization and prevention, hazardous material substitution, and provide for the use of such technologies in the conduct of such activities.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2901

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102