---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6181"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6181"
heading: "Estimation of costs of meeting defense environmental cleanup milestones required by consent orders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6181"
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"
---

# §6181. Estimation of costs of meeting defense environmental cleanup milestones required by consent orders


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall include in the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy budget for each fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the President under [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a)) a report on the cost, for that fiscal year and the four fiscal years following that fiscal year, of meeting milestones required by a consent order at each defense nuclear [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) at which defense environmental cleanup activities are occurring. The report shall include, for each such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)—

- (1) a specification of the cost of meeting such milestones during that fiscal year; and
- (2) an estimate of the cost of meeting such milestones during the four fiscal years following that fiscal year.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1394.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2590 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).