---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6191"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6191"
heading: "Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6191"
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 II — Closure of Facilities"
---

# §6191. Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities

- (a) **Training and Job Placement Services Plan.—** Not later than 120 days before a [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy defense nuclear [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) permanently ceases all production and processing operations, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report containing a discussion of the [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) and job placement services needed to enable the employees at such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to obtain employment in the defense environmental cleanup activities at such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2). The discussion shall include the actions that should be taken by the contractor operating and managing such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to provide retraining and job placement services to employees of such contractor.
- (b) **Closure Report.—** Upon the permanent cessation of production operations at a [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy defense nuclear [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall submit to Congress a report containing—
  - (1) a complete survey of environmental problems at the [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2);
  - (2) budget quality data indicating the cost of defense environmental cleanup activities at the [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2); and
  - (3) a discussion of the proposed cleanup schedule.

## 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 2602 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).