---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2621"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2621"
heading: "National defense waiver"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2621"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Toxic Substances Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control of Toxic Substances"
---

# §2621. National defense waiver


The [Administrator](/usc/15/2602.md?p=1) shall waive compliance with any provision of this chapter upon a request and determination by the President that the requested waiver is necessary in the interest of national defense. The [Administrator](/usc/15/2602.md?p=1) shall maintain a written record of the basis upon which such waiver was granted and make such record available for in camera examination when relevant in a judicial proceeding under this chapter. Upon the issuance of such a waiver, the [Administrator](/usc/15/2602.md?p=1) shall publish in the Federal Register a notice that the waiver was granted for national defense purposes, unless, upon the request of the President, the [Administrator](/usc/15/2602.md?p=1) determines to omit such publication because the publication itself would be contrary to the interests of national defense, in which event the [Administrator](/usc/15/2602.md?p=1) shall submit notice thereof to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–469, title I, § 22, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2044; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 99–519, § 3(c)(1), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2989.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1977, see section 31 of Pub. L. 94–469, set out as a note under section 2601 of this title.