---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6339"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6339"
heading: "Limitation on establishing an enduring bioassurance program within the administration"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6339"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 608 — Administrative Matters"
  - "Subchapter II — Research and Development"
---

# §6339. Limitation on establishing an enduring bioassurance program within the administration

- (a) **In General.—** The [Administrator](/usc/10/6101.md?p=2) may not establish, administer, manage, or facilitate a program within the [Administration](/usc/10/6101.md?p=1) for the purposes of executing an enduring national security research and development effort to broaden the role of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy in national biodefense.
- (b) **Rule of Construction.—** The limitation described in [subsection (a)](#a) shall not be interpreted—
  - (1) to prohibit the establishment of a bioassurance program for the purpose of executing enduring national security research and development in any component of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy other than the [Administration](/usc/10/6101.md?p=1) or in any other Federal [agency](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1); or
  - (2) to impede the use of resources of the [Administration](/usc/10/6101.md?p=1), including resources provided by a [national security laboratory](/usc/10/6101.md?p=6) or a [nuclear weapons production facility](/usc/10/6101.md?p=8) site, to support the execution of a bioassurance program, if such support is provided—
    - (A) on a cost-reimbursable basis to an entity that is not a component of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy; and
    - (B) in a manner that does not interfere with mission of such laboratory or [facility](/usc/10/227.md?p=b-2).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1452.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2796 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).