---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10192"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10192"
heading: "Applicability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10192"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy"
  - "Subchapter II — Research, Development, and Demonstration Regarding Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel"
---

# §10192. Applicability


The provisions of this subchapter are subject to [section 10107 of this title](/usc/42/10107.md) and shall not apply to facilities that are used for the [disposal](/usc/42/10101.md?p=9) of [high-level radioactive waste](/usc/42/10101.md?p=12), [low-level radioactive waste](/usc/42/10101.md?p=16), transuranic waste, or [spent nuclear fuel](/usc/42/10101.md?p=23) resulting from [atomic energy defense activities](/usc/42/10101.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title II, § 212, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2245.)