---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6174"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6174"
heading: "Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6174"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 604 — Defense Environmental Cleanup Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Defense Environmental Cleanup"
---

# §6174. Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall submit to Congress each year, at or about the same time that the President’s budget is submitted to Congress for a fiscal year under [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a), a future-years defense environmental cleanup plan that—
  - (1) reflects the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations included in that budget for the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy for defense environmental cleanup; and
  - (2) covers a period that [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) the fiscal year for which that budget is submitted and not less than the four succeeding fiscal years.
- (b) **Elements.—** Each future-years defense environmental cleanup plan required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall contain the following:
  - (1) A detailed description of the projects and activities relating to defense environmental cleanup to be carried out during the period covered by the plan at the sites specified in [subsection (c)](#c) and with respect to the activities specified in [subsection (d)](#d).
  - (2) A statement of proposed budget authority, estimated expenditures, and proposed appropriations necessary to support such projects and activities.
  - (3) With respect to each site specified in [subsection (c)](#c), the following:
    - (A) A statement of each milestone included in an enforceable agreement governing cleanup and waste remediation for that site for each fiscal year covered by the plan.
    - (B) For each such milestone, a statement with respect to whether each such milestone will be met in each such fiscal year.
    - (C) For any milestone that will not be met, an explanation of why the milestone will not be met and the date by which the milestone is expected to be met.
    - (D) For any milestone that has been missed, renegotiated, or postponed, a statement of the current milestone, the [original](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-10) milestone, and any interim milestones.
- (c) **Sites Specified.—** The sites specified in this subsection are the following:
  - (1) The Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho.
  - (2) The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
  - (3) The Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.
  - (4) The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  - (5) The Hanford Site, Richland, Washington.
  - (6) Any defense closure site of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy.
  - (7) Any site of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
- (d) **Activities Specified.—** The activities specified in this subsection are the following:
  - (1) [Program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) support.
  - (2) [Program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) direction.
  - (3) Safeguards and security.
  - (4) Technology development and deployment.
  - (5) Federal contributions to the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund established under section 1801 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ([42 U.S.C. 2297g](/usc/42/2297g.md)).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1387.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2582a of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).