---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6276"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6276"
heading: "Fund transfer authority"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6276"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 607 — Budget and Financial Management Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Recurring National Security Authorization Provisions"
---

# §6276. Fund transfer authority

- (a) **Transfer to Other Federal Agencies.—** The Secretary of Energy may transfer [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) authorized to be appropriated to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy pursuant to a [DOE national security authorization](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1) to other Federal [agencies](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1) for the performance of work for which the [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) were authorized. [Funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) so transferred may be merged with and be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as the authorizations of the Federal [agency](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1) to which the amounts are transferred.
- (b) **Transfer Within Department of Energy.—**
  - (1) Subject to [paragraph (2)](#b-2), the Secretary of Energy may transfer [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) authorized to be appropriated to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy pursuant to a [DOE national security authorization](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1) to any other [DOE national security authorization](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1). Amounts of authorizations so transferred may be merged with and be available for the same purposes and for the same period as the authorization to which the amounts are transferred.
  - (2) Not more than 5 percent of any such authorization may be transferred to another authorization under [paragraph (1)](#b-1). No such authorization may be increased or decreased by more than 5 percent by a transfer under such paragraph.
- (c) **Limitations.—** The authority provided by this subsection to transfer authorizations—
  - (1) may be used only to provide [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) for items relating to activities necessary for national security programs that have a higher priority than the items from which the [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) are transferred; and
  - (2) may not be used to provide [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) for an item for which Congress has specifically denied [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6).
- (d) **Notice to Congress.—** The Secretary of Energy shall promptly notify the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) of any transfer of [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) to or from any [DOE national security authorization](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1428, 1462.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2745 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(A), struck out pars. (1) and (2) headings which read as follows: “Transfers permitted” and “Maximum amounts”, respectively.