---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6179"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6179"
heading: "Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6179"
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"
---

# §6179. Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall consult with the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), the Attorney General, Governors and attorneys general of affected [States](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4), appropriate representatives of affected Indian tribes, and interested members of the public in any planning conducted by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) for defense environmental cleanup activities at [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy defense nuclear [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1393.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2588 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).