10 U.S.C. § 6180: Policy of Department of…

§6180 Policy of Department of Energy Regarding Future Defense Environmental Management Matters

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART VI — ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense › CHAPTER 604 — DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP MATTERS › SUBCHAPTER I — DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP › § 6180

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must have a policy in place by October 1, 2005 for handling future defense cleanup work. The policy must name each Department officer who will be responsible and explain what each officer must do. "Future defense environmental management matter" means a cleanup, decontamination, decommissioning, waste management, or related activity from DOE national security work that starts after November 24, 2003, but it does not include projects already assigned to the Environmental Management program as of that date. For fiscal year 2006 and every year after, the Department’s budget justification materials sent to Congress must show this policy. The Secretary must work with the Administrator for Nuclear Security and the Under Secretary for Energy, Science, and Environment. A report describing the planned policy and the named officers and duties must be included with the budget materials sent to Congress for fiscal year 2005.

Title 10, §6180

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(a)Policy Required.—

(1)Commencing not later than October 1, 2005, the Secretary of Energy shall have in effect a policy for carrying out future defense environmental management matters of the Department of Energy. The policy shall specify each officer within the Department with responsibilities for carrying out that policy and, for each such officer, the nature and extent of those responsibilities.

(2)In paragraph (1), the term “future defense environmental management matter” means any environmental cleanup project, decontamination and decommissioning project, waste management project, or related activity that arises out of the activities of the Department in carrying out programs necessary for national security and is to be commenced after November 24, 2003. However, such term does not include any such project or activity the responsibility for which has been assigned, as of November 24, 2003, to the Environmental Management program of the Department.

(b)Reflection in Budget.—

For fiscal year 2006 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary shall ensure that the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Energy budget for such fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31) reflect the policy required by subsection (a).

(c)Consultation.—

The Secretary shall carry out this section in consultation with the Administrator for Nuclear Security and the Under Secretary of Energy for Energy, Science, and Environment.

(d)Report.—

The Secretary shall include with the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Energy budget for fiscal year 2005 (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31) a report on the policy that the Secretary plans to have in effect under subsection (a) as of October 1, 2005. The report shall specify the officers and responsibilities referred to in subsection (a).

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2589 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(4).

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.