§2750 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

Field office managers at the Department of Energy can move defense environmental cleanup money from one program or project they run to another. Only one transfer can affect any given program or project in a fiscal year, and each transfer may not be more than $5,000,000. A manager may only transfer funds to fix a health, safety, or environmental risk or to make cleanup spending more efficient. Money moved cannot be used for things Congress specifically refused to fund or to start a new program Congress did not authorize. The normal rules in section 2742 do not apply. The Secretary must notify Congress, through the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, within 30 days after any transfer. "Program or project" = a field-office cleanup activity tied to national security with authorized and appropriated funds. "Defense environmental cleanup funds" = money appropriated under an authorization for those cleanup activities.

Title 50, §2750

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(a)The Secretary of Energy shall provide the manager of each field office of the Department of Energy with the authority to transfer defense environmental cleanup funds from a program or project under the jurisdiction of that office to another such program or project.

(b)(1)Not more than one transfer may be made to or from any program or project under subsection (a) in a fiscal year.

(2)The amount transferred to or from a program or project in any one transfer under subsection (a) may not exceed $5,000,000.

(3)A transfer may not be carried out by a manager of a field office under subsection (a) unless the manager determines that the transfer is necessary—

(A)to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment; or

(B)to assure the most efficient use of defense environmental cleanup funds at the field office.

(4)Funds transferred pursuant to subsection (a) may not be used for an item for which Congress has specifically denied funds or for a new program or project that has not been authorized by Congress.

(c)The requirements of section 2742 of this title shall not apply to transfers of funds pursuant to subsection (a).

(d)The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, shall notify Congress of any transfer of funds pursuant to subsection (a) not later than 30 days after such transfer occurs.

(e)In this section:

(1)The term “program or project” means, with respect to a field office of the Department of Energy, a program or project that is for defense environmental cleanup activities necessary for national security programs of the Department, that is being carried out by that office, and for which defense environmental cleanup funds have been authorized and appropriated.

(2)The term “defense environmental cleanup funds” means funds appropriated to the Department of Energy pursuant to an authorization for carrying out defense environmental cleanup activities necessary for national security programs.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 7386i of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 108–136.

Amendments

2014—Subsec. (b)(3)(B). Pub. L. 113–291 substituted “cleanup” for “management”. 2013—Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(h)(2)(A), substituted “cleanup” for “management” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(h)(2)(B), substituted “cleanup” for “management” in heading and text. Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(h)(2)(C)(i), substituted “defense environmental cleanup activities” for “environmental restoration or waste management activities” and “defense environmental cleanup funds” for “defense environmental management funds”. Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(h)(2)(C)(ii), substituted “ ‘defense environmental cleanup funds’ ” for “ ‘defense environmental management funds’ ” and “defense environmental cleanup activities” for “environmental restoration and waste management activities”. 2003—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–136, § 3141(j)(2)(D)(iv), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 2742 of this title.

§2750 Transfer of Defense Environmental Cleanup Funds

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Title 50, §2750

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