---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6182"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6182"
heading: "Public statement of environmental liabilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6182"
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"
---

# §6182. Public statement of environmental liabilities


Each year, at the same time that the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy submits its annual financial report under [section 3516 of title 31](/usc/31/3516.md), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall make available to the public a statement of environmental liabilities, as calculated for the most recent audited financial statement of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) under [section 3515](/usc/31/3515.md) of that title, for each defense nuclear [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) at which defense environmental cleanup activities are occurring.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1395.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2591 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).