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Title 50 - War and National Defense
Chapter 42 - ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS (§§ 2501 - 2822)
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| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE CHAPTER 42 - ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS Front Matter |
| Date | 2012 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
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Part A—Stockpile Stewardship and Weapons Production
| 2521. | Stockpile stewardship program. |
| 2522. | Stockpile stewardship criteria. |
| 2523. | Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, management, and infrastructure plan. |
| 2523a. | Repealed. |
| 2523b. | Transferred. |
| 2524. | Stockpile management program. |
| 2524a. | Repealed. |
| 2525. | Annual assessments and reports to the President and Congress regarding the condition of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile. |
| 2526. | Form of certifications regarding the safety or reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile. |
| 2527. | Nuclear test ban readiness program. |
| 2528, 2528a. | Repealed. |
| 2529. | Requirements for specific request for new or modified nuclear weapons. |
| 2530. | Testing of nuclear weapons. |
| 2531. | Repealed. |
| 2532. | Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile. |
| 2533. | Reports on critical difficulties at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities. |
| 2534. | Plan for transformation of National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear security enterprise. |
| 2535. | Replacement project for Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. |
| 2536. | Reports on lifetime extension programs. |
| 2537. | Selected Acquisition Reports and independent cost estimates on life extension programs and new nuclear facilities. |
| 2538. | Advice to President and Congress regarding safety, security, and reliability of United States nuclear weapons stockpile. |
Part B—Tritium
| 2541. | Tritium production program. |
| 2542. | Tritium recycling. |
| 2543. | Tritium production. |
| 2544. | Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling facilities. |
| 2545. | Procedures for meeting tritium production requirements. |
SUBCHAPTER III—PROLIFERATION MATTERS
| 2561. | Repealed. |
| 2562. | Nonproliferation initiatives and activities. |
| 2563. | Annual report on status of Nuclear Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting Program. |
| 2564. | Nuclear Cities Initiative. |
| 2565. | Authority to conduct program relating to fissile materials. |
| 2566. | Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site. |
| 2567. | Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. |
| 2568. | Authority to use international nuclear materials protection and cooperation program funds outside the former Soviet Union. |
| 2569. | Acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide. |
| 2570. | Silk Road Initiative. |
| 2571. | Nuclear Nonproliferation Fellowships for scientists employed by United States and Russian Federation. |
| 2572. | International agreements on nuclear weapons data. |
| 2573. | International agreements on information on radioactive materials. |
| 2574. | Enhancing nuclear forensics capabilities. |
SUBCHAPTER IV—ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT MATTERS Part A—Environmental Restoration and Waste Management
| 2581. | Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account. |
| 2582. | Requirement to develop future use plans for environmental management programs. |
| 2582a. | Future-years defense environmental management plan. |
| 2583. | Integrated fissile materials management plan. |
| 2584. | Baseline environmental management reports. |
| 2585. | Accelerated schedule for environmental restoration and waste management activities. |
| 2586. | Defense waste cleanup technology program. |
| 2587. | Report on environmental restoration expenditures. |
| 2588. | Public participation in planning for environmental restoration and waste management at defense nuclear facilities. |
| 2589. | Policy of Department of Energy regarding future defense environmental management matters. |
Part B—Closure of Facilities
| 2601. | Projects to accelerate closure activities at defense nuclear facilities. |
| 2602. | Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities. |
Part C—Privatization
| 2611. | Defense environmental management privatization projects. |
Part D—Hanford Reservation, Washington
| 2621. | Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation. |
| 2622. | Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms. |
| 2623. | River Protection Project. |
| 2624. | Funding for termination costs of River Protection Project, Richland, Washington. |
Part E—Savannah River Site, South Carolina
| 2631. | Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site. |
| 2632. | Multi-year plan for clean-up. |
| 2633. | Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials. |
| 2634. | Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposition of legacy nuclear materials. |
| 2635. | Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposition of legacy nuclear materials. |
| 2636. | Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials. |
| 2637. | Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials. |
| 2638. | Limitation on use of funds for decommissioning F–canyon facility. |
SUBCHAPTER V—SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY MATTERS Part A—Safeguards and Security
| 2651. | Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of restricted data is certified. |
| 2652. | Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries. |
| 2653. | Background investigations of certain personnel at Department of Energy facilities. |
| 2654. | Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program. |
| 2655. | Repealed. |
| 2656. | Notice to congressional committees of certain security and counterintelligence failures within atomic energy defense programs. |
| 2657. | Submittal of annual report on status of security functions at nuclear weapons facilities. |
| 2658. | Report on counterintelligence and security practices at national security laboratories. |
| 2659. | Report on security vulnerabilities of national security laboratory computers. | 2660. | Design and use of prototypes of nuclear weapons for intelligence purposes. |
| 2671. | Review of certain documents before declassification and release. |
| 2672. | Protection against inadvertent release of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data. |
| 2673. | Supplement to plan for declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data. |
| 2674. | Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges. |
| 2675. | Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities. |
Part C—Emergency Response
| 2691. | Responsibility for Defense Programs Emergency Response Program. |
SUBCHAPTER VI—PERSONNEL MATTERS Part A—Personnel Management
| 2701. | Authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel. |
| 2702. | Whistleblower protection program. |
| 2703. | Employee incentives for employees at closure project facilities. |
| 2704. | Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities workforce restructuring plan. |
| 2705. | Authority to provide certificate of commendation to Department of Energy and contractor employees for exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security. |
Part B—Education and Training
| 2721. | Executive management training in Department of Energy. |
| 2722. | Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program. |
| 2723. | Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise. |
Part C—Worker Safety
| 2731. | Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities. |
| 2732. | Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear facilities. |
| 2733. | Program to monitor Department of Energy workers exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances. |
| 2734. | Programs for persons who may have been exposed to radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation. |
| 2735. | Use of probabilistic risk assessment to ensure nuclear safety of facilities of the Administration and the Office of Environmental Management. |
| 2736. | Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents. |
SUBCHAPTER VII—BUDGET AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MATTERS Part A—Recurring National Security Authorization Provisions
| 2741. | Definitions. |
| 2742. | Reprogramming. |
| 2743. | Minor construction projects. |
| 2743a. | General plant projects. |
| 2744. | Limits on construction projects. |
| 2745. | Fund transfer authority. |
| 2746. | Conceptual and construction design. |
| 2747. | Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities. |
| 2748. | Scope of authority to carry out plant projects. |
| 2749. | Availability of funds. |
| 2750. | Transfer of defense environmental management funds. |
| 2751. | Transfer of weapons activities funds. |
| 2752. | Funds available for all national security programs of the Department of Energy. |
| 2753. | Notification of cost overruns for certain Department of Energy projects. |
Part B—Penalties
| 2761. | Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under environmental laws. |
| 2762. | Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under Clean Air Act. |
Part C—Other Matters
| 2771. | Repealed. |
| 2772. | Quarterly reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities. |
SUBCHAPTER VIII—ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS Part A—Contracts
| 2781. | Costs not allowed under covered contracts. |
| 2782. | Prohibition and report on bonuses to contractors operating defense nuclear facilities. |
| 2783. | Contractor liability for injury or loss of property arising out of atomic weapons testing programs. |
| 2784. | Notice-and-wait requirement applicable to certain third-party financing arrangements. |
| 2785. | Publication of contractor performance evaluations leading to award fees. |
Part B—Research and Development
| 2791. | Laboratory-directed research and development programs. |
| 2791a. | Laboratory-directed research and development. |
| 2792. | Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed research and development purposes. |
| 2793. | Limitation on use of funds for certain research and development purposes. |
| 2794. | Critical technology partnerships and cooperative research and development centers. |
| 2795. | University-based research collaboration program. |
Part C—Facilities Management
| 2811. | Transfers of real property at certain Department of Energy facilities. |
| 2812. | Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by plant managers of certain nuclear weapons production plants. |
| 2813. | Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal or utilization of certain Department of Energy assets. |
| 2814. | Department of Energy energy parks program. |
Part D—Other Matters
| 2821. | Repealed. |
| 2822. | Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of infrastructure at Nevada National Security Site. |
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