Title 50 — War and National Defense

Every section of Title 50 of the United States Code, war and national defense — 1,406 sections, full text, with the cases that cite each one.

• 50 U.S.C. § 2402 — Administrator for Nuclear Security
• 50 U.S.C. § 2403 — Principal Deputy Administrator for Nuclear Security
• 50 U.S.C. § 2404 — Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2405 — Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
• 50 U.S.C. § 2406 — Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors
• 50 U.S.C. § 2407 — General Counsel
• 50 U.S.C. § 2408 — Staff of Administration
• 50 U.S.C. § 2409 — Scope of authority of Secretary of Energy to modify organization of Administration
• 50 U.S.C. § 2410 — Status of Administration and contractor personnel within Department of Energy
• 50 U.S.C. § 2411 — Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation
• 50 U.S.C. § 2412 — Cybersecurity Risk Inventory, Assessment, and Mitigation Working Group
• 50 U.S.C. § 2421 — Protection of national security information
• 50 U.S.C. § 2422 — Office of Defense Nuclear Security
• 50 U.S.C. § 2423 — Counterintelligence programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2424 — Procedures relating to access by individuals to classified areas and information of Administration
• 50 U.S.C. § 2425 — Government access to information on Administration computers
• 50 U.S.C. § 2426 — Congressional oversight of special access programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2441 — Authority to establish certain contracting, program management, scientific, engineering, and technical positions
• 50 U.S.C. § 2441a — Authorized personnel levels of the Office of the Administrator
• 50 U.S.C. § 2442 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(c)(1)(A), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2186
• 50 U.S.C. § 2443 — Notification of employee practices affecting national security
• 50 U.S.C. § 2444 — Nonproliferation and national security scholarship and fellowship program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2445 — Limitation on bonuses for employees who engage in improper program management
• 50 U.S.C. § 2446 — Treatment of contractors who engage in improper program management
• 50 U.S.C. § 2451 — Separate treatment in budget
• 50 U.S.C. § 2452 — Planning, programming, and budgeting process
• 50 U.S.C. § 2453 — Future-years nuclear security program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2454 — Semiannual financial reports on defense nuclear nonproliferation programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2455 — Repealed. Pub. L. 116–92, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1958
• 50 U.S.C. § 2455a — National Nuclear Security Administration authority for urgent nonproliferation activities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2461 — Environmental protection, safety, and health requirements
• 50 U.S.C. § 2462 — Compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation
• 50 U.S.C. § 2463 — Sharing of technology with Department of Defense
• 50 U.S.C. § 2464 — Use of capabilities of national security laboratories by entities outside the Administration
• 50 U.S.C. § 2465 — Enhancing private-sector employment through cooperative research and development activities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2466 — Use of funds for the purchase of options to purchase real property
• 50 U.S.C. § 2471 — Definitions
• 50 U.S.C. § 2481 — Functions transferred
• 50 U.S.C. § 2482,_2483 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(c)(1)(B), (C), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2186, 2187
• 50 U.S.C. § 2484 — Applicability of preexisting laws and regulations
• 50 U.S.C. § 2501 — Definitions
• 50 U.S.C. § 2511 — Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2512 — Management structure for nuclear security enterprise
• 50 U.S.C. § 2513 — Restriction on licensing requirement for certain defense activities and facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2514 — Transferred
• 50 U.S.C. § 2515 — Establishment of Center for Security Technology, Analysis, Response, and Testing
• 50 U.S.C. § 2521 — Stockpile stewardship program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2522 — Stockpile stewardship criteria
• 50 U.S.C. § 2523 — Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, management, and responsiveness plan
• 50 U.S.C. § 2523a — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3133(c)(1), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2192
• 50 U.S.C. § 2523b — Transferred
• 50 U.S.C. § 2523c — Major warhead refurbishment program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2524 — Stockpile management program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2524a — Repealed. Pub. L. 111–84, div. C, title XXXI, §3113(a)(1), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2704
• 50 U.S.C. § 2525 — Annual assessments and reports to the President and Congress regarding the condition of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile
• 50 U.S.C. § 2526 — Form of certifications regarding the safety or reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile
• 50 U.S.C. § 2527 — Nuclear test ban readiness program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2528 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3133(e)(1)(A), (2), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2192, 2193
• 50 U.S.C. § 2528a — Repealed. Pub. L. 110–181, div. C, title XXXI, §3112(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 577
• 50 U.S.C. § 2529 — Requirements for specific request for new or modified nuclear weapons
• 50 U.S.C. § 2530 — Testing of nuclear weapons
• 50 U.S.C. § 2531 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3131(d)(3), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2181
• 50 U.S.C. § 2532 — Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile
• 50 U.S.C. § 2533 — Reports on critical difficulties at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2534 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(c)(8)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1075
• 50 U.S.C. § 2535 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a)(1)(A)(i), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2536 — Repealed. Pub. L. 118–159, div. C, title XXXI, §3111(c)(5), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2295
• 50 U.S.C. § 2537 — Selected Acquisition Reports and independent cost estimates and reviews of certain programs and facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538 — Advice to President and Congress regarding safety, security, and reliability of United States nuclear weapons stockpile
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538a — Plutonium pit production capacity
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538b — Stockpile responsiveness program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538c — Long-term plan for meeting national security requirements for unencumbered uranium
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538d — Incorporation of integrated surety architecture
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538e — W93 nuclear warhead acquisition process
• 50 U.S.C. § 2538f — Earned value management and technology readiness levels for life extension programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2541 — Tritium production program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2542 — Tritium recycling
• 50 U.S.C. § 2543 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(c)(11)(B), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1075
• 50 U.S.C. § 2544 — Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2545 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a)(1)(A)(ii), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2561 — Repealed. Pub. L. 111–84, div. C, title XXXI, §3117(a), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2709
• 50 U.S.C. § 2562 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(d)(1)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1075
• 50 U.S.C. § 2563 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–91, div. C, title XXXI, §3133(a)(1), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1896
• 50 U.S.C. § 2564 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(d)(2)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1075
• 50 U.S.C. § 2565 — Authority to conduct program relating to fissile materials
• 50 U.S.C. § 2566 — Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site
• 50 U.S.C. § 2567 — Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina
• 50 U.S.C. § 2568 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2569 — Acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide
• 50 U.S.C. § 2570,_2571 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(b)(2), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2572 — International agreements on nuclear weapons data
• 50 U.S.C. § 2573 — International agreements on information on radioactive materials
• 50 U.S.C. § 2574 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(b)(3), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2575 — Defense nuclear nonproliferation management plan
• 50 U.S.C. § 2576 — Information relating to certain defense nuclear nonproliferation programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2577 — Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation
• 50 U.S.C. § 2581 — Defense Environmental Cleanup Account
• 50 U.S.C. § 2582 — Requirement to develop future use plans for defense environmental cleanup
• 50 U.S.C. § 2582a — Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan
• 50 U.S.C. § 2583 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a)(1)(B)(i), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2584 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(e)(5), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1076
• 50 U.S.C. § 2585 — Accelerated schedule for defense environmental cleanup activities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2586 — Defense environmental cleanup technology program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2586a — Other programs relating to technology development
• 50 U.S.C. § 2587 — Report on defense environmental cleanup expenditures
• 50 U.S.C. § 2588 — Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup
• 50 U.S.C. § 2589 — Policy of Department of Energy regarding future defense environmental management matters
• 50 U.S.C. § 2590 — Estimation of costs of meeting defense environmental cleanup milestones required by consent orders
• 50 U.S.C. § 2591 — Public statement of environmental liabilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2601 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(e)(10), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1077
• 50 U.S.C. § 2602 — Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2603 — Plan for deactivation and decommissioning of nonoperational defense nuclear facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2621 — Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
• 50 U.S.C. § 2622 — Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms
• 50 U.S.C. § 2623 — River Protection Project
• 50 U.S.C. § 2624_to_2626 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a)(1)(B)(ii), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2627 — Notification regarding air release of radioactive or hazardous material
• 50 U.S.C. § 2631 — Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site
• 50 U.S.C. § 2632 — Multi-year plan for clean-up
• 50 U.S.C. § 2633 — Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials
• 50 U.S.C. § 2634_to_2637 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(e)(15), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1078
• 50 U.S.C. § 2638 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a)(1)(B)(iii), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3060
• 50 U.S.C. § 2651 — Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of Restricted Data is certified
• 50 U.S.C. § 2652 — Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries
• 50 U.S.C. § 2653 — Background investigations of certain personnel at Department of Energy facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2654 — Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2655 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLV, §4504(c), formerly Pub. L. 107–107, div. C, title XXXI, §3152(c), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1377; renumbered Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLV, §4504(c), and amended Pub. L. 108–136, div. C, title XXXI, §3141(h)(5)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1772
• 50 U.S.C. § 2656 — Notice to congressional committees of certain security and counterintelligence failures within atomic energy defense programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2657 — Annual report and certification on status of security of atomic energy defense facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2658 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(a)(1), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1068
• 50 U.S.C. § 2659 — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–113, div. M, title VII, §701(f), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2930
• 50 U.S.C. § 2660 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–91, div. C, title XXXI, §3135(c)(1), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1899
• 50 U.S.C. § 2661 — Protection of certain nuclear facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft
• 50 U.S.C. § 2662 — Reporting on penetrations of networks of contractors and subcontractors
• 50 U.S.C. § 2671 — Review of certain documents before declassification and release
• 50 U.S.C. § 2672 — Protection against inadvertent release of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data
• 50 U.S.C. § 2673 — Supplement to plan for declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data
• 50 U.S.C. § 2674 — Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges
• 50 U.S.C. § 2675 — Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2701 — Authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel
• 50 U.S.C. § 2702 — Whistleblower protection program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2703 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI, §3146(g)(3)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1079
• 50 U.S.C. § 2704 — Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities workforce restructuring plan
• 50 U.S.C. § 2705 — Authority to provide certificate of commendation to Department of Energy and contractor employees for exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security
• 50 U.S.C. § 2721 — Executive management training in Department of Energy
• 50 U.S.C. § 2722 — Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2723 — Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise
• 50 U.S.C. § 2731 — Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2732 — Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2733 — Program to monitor Department of Energy workers exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances
• 50 U.S.C. § 2734 — Programs for persons who may have been exposed to radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation
• 50 U.S.C. § 2735 — Use of probabilistic risk assessment to ensure nuclear safety of facilities of the Administration and the Office of Environmental Management
• 50 U.S.C. § 2736 — Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents
• 50 U.S.C. § 2741 — Definitions
• 50 U.S.C. § 2742 — Reprogramming
• 50 U.S.C. § 2743 — Minor construction projects
• 50 U.S.C. § 2743a — General plant projects
• 50 U.S.C. § 2744 — Limits on construction projects
• 50 U.S.C. § 2745 — Fund transfer authority
• 50 U.S.C. § 2746 — Conceptual and construction design
• 50 U.S.C. § 2747 — Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2748 — Scope of authority to carry out plant projects
• 50 U.S.C. § 2749 — Availability of funds
• 50 U.S.C. § 2750 — Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds
• 50 U.S.C. § 2751 — Transfer of weapons activities funds
• 50 U.S.C. § 2752 — Funds available for all national security programs of the Department of Energy
• 50 U.S.C. § 2753 — Notification of cost overruns for certain Department of Energy projects
• 50 U.S.C. § 2754 — Life-cycle cost estimates of certain atomic energy defense capital assets
• 50 U.S.C. § 2755 — Matters relating to critical decisions
• 50 U.S.C. § 2756 — Unfunded priorities of the Administration
• 50 U.S.C. § 2757 — Review of adequacy of nuclear weapons budget
• 50 U.S.C. § 2758 — Improvements to cost estimates informing analyses of alternatives
• 50 U.S.C. § 2761 — Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under environmental laws
• 50 U.S.C. § 2762 — Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under Clean Air Act
• 50 U.S.C. § 2771 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3131(u)(1), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2184
• 50 U.S.C. § 2772 — Reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2773 — Independent acquisition project reviews of capital assets acquisition projects
• 50 U.S.C. § 2781 — Costs not allowed under covered contracts
• 50 U.S.C. § 2782 — Prohibition and report on bonuses to contractors operating defense nuclear facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2782a — Assessments of emergency preparedness of defense nuclear facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2783 — Contractor liability for injury or loss of property arising out of atomic weapons testing programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2784 — Notice-and-wait requirement applicable to certain third-party financing arrangements
• 50 U.S.C. § 2785 — Publication of contractor performance evaluations leading to award fees
• 50 U.S.C. § 2786 — Enhanced procurement authority to manage supply chain risk
• 50 U.S.C. § 2787 — Cost-benefit analyses for competition of management and operating contracts
• 50 U.S.C. § 2791 — Laboratory-directed research and development programs
• 50 U.S.C. § 2791a — Laboratory-directed research and development
• 50 U.S.C. § 2791b — Charges to individual program, project, or activity
• 50 U.S.C. § 2792 — Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed research and development purposes
• 50 U.S.C. § 2793 — Report on use of funds for certain research and development purposes
• 50 U.S.C. § 2794 — Critical technology partnerships and cooperative research and development centers
• 50 U.S.C. § 2795 — University-based research collaboration program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2796 — Limitation on establishing an enduring bioassurance program within the Administration
• 50 U.S.C. § 2811 — Transfers of real property at certain Department of Energy facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2812 — Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities
• 50 U.S.C. § 2813 — Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal or utilization of certain Department of Energy assets
• 50 U.S.C. § 2814 — Department of Energy energy parks program
• 50 U.S.C. § 2815 — Authority to use passenger carriers for contractor commuting
• 50 U.S.C. § 2821 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI, §3131(q)(2), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2183
• 50 U.S.C. § 2822 — Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of infrastructure at Nevada National Security Site