10 U.S.C. § 6191: Reports in connection with…

§6191 Reports in Connection with Permanent Closures of Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Facilities

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 II — CLOSURE OF FACILITIES › § 6191

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

No later than 120 days before a Department of Energy defense nuclear facility stops all production and processing, the Energy Secretary must send a report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees. The report must explain what training and job-placement help workers will need to get jobs in the facility’s defense cleanup work and what the contractor should do to retrain and place those employees. When the facility has permanently stopped production, the Secretary must send Congress a report that gives a full survey of the site’s environmental problems, budget-quality cost estimates for the cleanup, and a proposed cleanup schedule.

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(a)Training and Job Placement Services Plan.—

Not later than 120 days before a Department of Energy defense nuclear facility permanently ceases all production and processing operations, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report containing a discussion of the training and job placement services needed to enable the employees at such facility to obtain employment in the defense environmental cleanup activities at such facility. The discussion shall include the actions that should be taken by the contractor operating and managing such facility to provide retraining and job placement services to employees of such contractor.

(b)Closure Report.—

Upon the permanent cessation of production operations at a Department of Energy defense nuclear facility, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to Congress a report containing—

(1)a complete survey of environmental problems at the facility;

(2)budget quality data indicating the cost of defense environmental cleanup activities at the facility; and

(3)a discussion of the proposed cleanup schedule.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2602 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

§6191 Reports in Connection with Permanent Closures of Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Facilities

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Title 10, §6191

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