---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6213"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6213"
heading: "Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6213"
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"
---

# §6213. Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall continue operations and maintain a high [state](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4) of readiness at the H–canyon [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, and shall provide technical staff necessary to operate and so maintain such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).


## 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 2633 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).