---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6279"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6279"
heading: "Scope of authority to carry out plant projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6279"
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"
---

# §6279. Scope of authority to carry out plant projects


In carrying out [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) necessary for [national security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16), the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy to carry out plant projects [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) authority for maintenance, restoration, planning, construction, acquisition, modification of [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), and the continuation of projects authorized in prior years, and land acquisition related thereto.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1429.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2748 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).