---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6127"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6127"
heading: "Notification of certain regulations that impact the National Nuclear Security Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6127"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 602 — Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Stockpile Stewardship and Weapons Production"
---

# §6127. Notification of certain regulations that impact the National Nuclear Security Administration

- (a) **In General.—** If a director of a [national security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) laboratory of the Administration determines that a Federal regulation could inhibit the ability of the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) to maintain the safety, security, or effectiveness of the nuclear weapons stockpile without engaging in explosive nuclear testing, such director, not later than 15 days after making such determination, shall submit to Congress a notification of such determination.
- (b) **Form.—** Each notification required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1362.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 3125 of Pub. L. 118–159, which was set out as a note under section 2538 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(12).