---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6281"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6281"
heading: "Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6281"
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"
---

# §6281. Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds

- (a) **Transfer Authority for Defense Environmental Cleanup Funds.—** The Secretary of Energy shall provide the manager of each field office of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy with the authority to transfer [defense environmental cleanup funds](#e-2) from a [program or project](#e-1) under the jurisdiction of that office to another such [program or project](#e-1).
- (b) **Limitations.—**
  - (1) Not more than one transfer may be made to or from any [program or project](#e-1) under [subsection (a)](#a) in a fiscal year.
  - (2) The amount transferred to or from a [program or project](#e-1) in any one transfer under [subsection (a)](#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)](#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](#e-2) at the field office.
  - (4) [Funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) transferred pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) may not be used for an item for which Congress has specifically denied [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) or for a new [program or project](#e-1) that has not been authorized by Congress.
- (c) **Exemption From Reprogramming Requirements.—** The requirements of [section 6272](/usc/10/6272.md) shall not apply to transfers of [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a).
- (d) **Notification.—** The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, shall notify Congress of any transfer of [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) not later than 30 days after such transfer occurs.
- (e) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “program or project” means, with respect to a field office of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy, a program or project that is for defense environmental cleanup activities necessary for national security programs of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), that is being carried out by that office, and for which [defense environmental cleanup funds](#e-2) have been authorized and appropriated.
  - (2) The term “defense environmental cleanup funds” means [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) appropriated to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy pursuant to an authorization for carrying out defense environmental cleanup activities necessary for national security programs.

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1430, 1462.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2750 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) to (4) headings which read as follows: “Number of transfers”, “Amounts transferred”, “Determination required”, and “Impermissible uses”, respectively.