---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6280"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6280"
heading: "Availability of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6280"
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"
---

# §6280. Availability of funds

- (a) **In General.—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), amounts appropriated pursuant to a [DOE national security authorization](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1) for operation and maintenance or for plant projects may, when so specified in an appropriations Act, remain available until expended.
- (b) **Exception for Program Direction Funds.—** Amounts appropriated for [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) direction pursuant to a [DOE national security authorization](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1) for a fiscal year shall remain available to be obligated only until the end of that fiscal year.

## 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 2749 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).