---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6311"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6311"
heading: "Reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6311"
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 III — Other Matters"
---

# §6311. Reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities

- (a) **Reports Required.—**
  - (1) Concurrent with the submission of the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the President for a fiscal year (submitted to Congress pursuant to [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a)), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall submit to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) a report on the financial balances for each atomic energy defense [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
  - (2) In each report required by [paragraph (1)](#a-1), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) shall—
    - (A) present information on the financial balances for each atomic energy defense [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) at the budget control levels used in the report accompanying the most current Act appropriating funds for energy and water development; and
    - (B) present financial balances in connection with funding under recurring [DOE national security authorizations](/usc/10/6271.md?p=1) (as defined in [section 6271](/usc/10/6271.md)) separately from balances in connection with funding under any other provision of law.
- (b) **Elements.—**
  - (1) Each report required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
    - (A) be divided into two parts, as specified in paragraphs [(2)](#b-2) and [(3)](#b-3); and
    - (B) set forth the information required by those paragraphs in summary form and by fiscal year.
  - (2) The first part of the report required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall set forth, for each atomic energy defense [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), the following information, as of the end of the most recently completed fiscal year:
    - (A) The balance of any unobligated funds and an explanation for why those funds are unobligated.
    - (B) The total funds available to cost.
    - (C) The total balance of costed funds.
    - (D) The total balance of uncosted funds.
    - (E) The threshold for the balance of uncosted funds, stated in dollars.
    - (F) The amount of any balance of uncosted funds that is over or under that threshold and, in the case of a balance over that threshold, an explanation for why the balance is over that threshold.
    - (G) The total balance of encumbered, uncosted funds.
    - (H) The total balance of unencumbered, uncosted funds.
    - (I) The amount of any balance of unencumbered, uncosted funds that is over or under the threshold described in [subparagraph (E)](#b-2-E) and, in the case of a balance over that threshold, an explanation for why the balance is over that threshold.
  - (3) The second part of the report required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall set forth, for each atomic energy defense [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), the following information:
    - (A) The balance of any unobligated funds, as of the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
    - (B) The total balance of uncosted funds, as of the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
    - (C) Unalloted budget authority.
- (c) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “costed”, with respect to funds, means the funds have been obligated to a contract and goods or services have been received from the contractor in exchange for the funds.
  - (2) The term “encumbered”, with respect to funds, means the funds have been obligated to a contract and are being held for a specific known purpose by the contractor.
  - (3) The term “uncosted”, with respect to funds, means the funds have been obligated to a contract and goods or services have not been received from the contractor in exchange for the funds.
  - (4) The term “unencumbered”, with respect to funds, means the funds have been obligated to a contract and are not being held for a specific known purpose by the contractor.
  - (5) The term “threshold” means a benchmark over which a balance carried over at the end of a fiscal year should be given greater scrutiny by Congress.
  - (6) The term “total funds available to cost” means the sum of—
    - (A) total uncosted obligations from prior fiscal years;
    - (B) current fiscal year obligations; and
    - (C) current fiscal year deobligations.

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1438, 1462.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2772 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(A), struck out pars. (1) and (2) headings which read as follows: “In general” and “Presentation of information”, respectively.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(A), struck out pars. (1) to (3) headings which read as follows: “Format”, “Part 1”, and “Part 2”, respectively.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(A), struck out pars. (1) to (6) headings which corresponded to the defined term in each par.