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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-83

§6339 Limitation on Establishing an Enduring Bioassurance Program Within the Administration

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— General Military Law › Part VI— ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart B— Atomic Energy Defense › Chapter 608— ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS › Subchapter II— RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT › § 6339

Last updated Apr 18, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must not create or run a long-term program inside the Administration to expand the Department of Energy’s role in national biodefense research and development. That ban does not stop other parts of the Department of Energy or other federal agencies from having such a program. Labs or nuclear sites in the Administration may help if a non-Department entity pays the costs and the help does not interfere with the lab’s or facility’s main mission.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §6339

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Administrator may not establish, administer, manage, or facilitate a program within the Administration for the purposes of executing an enduring national security research and development effort to broaden the role of the Department of Energy in national biodefense.
(b)The limitation described in subsection (a) shall not be interpreted—
(1)to prohibit the establishment of a bioassurance program for the purpose of executing enduring national security research and development in any component of the Department of Energy other than the Administration or in any other Federal agency; or
(2)to impede the use of resources of the Administration, including resources provided by a national security laboratory or a nuclear weapons production facility site, to support the execution of a bioassurance program, if such support is provided—
(A)on a cost-reimbursable basis to an entity that is not a component of the Department of Energy; and
(B)in a manner that does not interfere with mission of such laboratory or facility.

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Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2796 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. § 6339

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 18, 2026

Release point: 119-83