---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6106"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6106"
heading: "Restriction on licensing requirement for certain defense activities and facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6106"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 601 — Organizational Matters"
---

# §6106. Restriction on licensing requirement for certain defense activities and facilities


None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy [National Security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) and [Military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1981 (Public Law 96–540; 94 Stat. 3197) or any other Act may be used for any purpose related to licensing of any defense activity or [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1343.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1981, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 96–540, Dec. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 3197, which enacted former sections 2513 and 2762 of Title 50, War and National Defense, and other provisions not classified to the Code. Section 2513 of Title 50 was repealed and restated as this section by Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (b)(1), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1343, 1458. Section 2762 of Title 50 was repealed and restated as section 6302 of this title by Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (b)(1), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1437, 1458. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2513 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).