---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6211"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6211"
heading: "Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6211"
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 IV — Savannah River Site, South Carolina"
---

# §6211. Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall accelerate the schedule for the isolation of high-level nuclear waste in glass canisters at the Defense Waste Processing [Facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, if the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) determines that the acceleration of such schedule—

- (1) will achieve long-term cost savings to the Federal Government; and
- (2) could accelerate the [removal](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) and isolation of high-level nuclear waste from long-term storage tanks at the site.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1401.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2631 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).