---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6176"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6176"
heading: "Defense environmental cleanup technology program"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6176"
units:
  - "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 I — Defense Environmental Cleanup"
---

# §6176. Defense environmental cleanup technology program

- (a) **Establishment of Program.—** The Secretary of Energy shall establish and carry out a program of research for the development of technologies useful for—
  - (1) the reduction of environmental hazards and contamination resulting from [defense waste](#b-1); and
  - (2) environmental restoration of [inactive defense waste disposal sites](#b-2).
- (b) **Definitions.—** As used in this section:
  - (1) The term “defense waste” means waste, including radioactive waste, resulting primarily from atomic energy defense activities of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy.
  - (2) The term “inactive defense waste disposal site” means any site (including any [facility](/usc/10/227.md?p=b-2)) under the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary of Energy which is used for the disposal of [defense waste](#b-1) and is closed to the disposal of additional [defense waste](#b-1), including any site that is subject to decontamination and decommissioning.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1389.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2586 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).