---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6271"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6271"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6271"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 607 — Budget and Financial Management Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Recurring National Security Authorization Provisions"
---

# §6271. Definitions


In this subchapter:

- (1) The term “DOE national security authorization” means an authorization of appropriations for activities of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy in carrying out [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) necessary for [national security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16).
- (2)
  - (A) Except as provided by [subparagraph (B)](#2-B), the term “minor construction threshold” means $30,000,000.
  - (B) The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) may calculate the amount specified in [subparagraph (A)](#2-A) based on fiscal year 2022 constant dollars if the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3)—
    - (i) submits to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) a report on the method used by the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) to calculate the adjustment;
    - (ii) a period of 30 days elapses following the date of such submission; and
    - (iii) publishes the adjusted amount in the Federal Register.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1425.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2741 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).