---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13526"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13526"
heading: "Uncosted obligations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13526"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter XI — Policy and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §13526. Uncosted obligations

- (a) **Report—** Along with the submission of each of the President’s annual budget requests to Congress, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall submit to Congress a report which—
  - (1) identifies the amount of Department of Energy funds that were, as of the end of the previous fiscal year—
    - (A) committed uncosted obligations; and
    - (B) uncommitted uncosted obligations;
  - (2) specifically describes the purposes for which all such funds are intended; and
  - (3) explains the effect that information contained in the report has had on the annual budget request for the Department of Energy being simultaneously submitted.
- (b) **Definitions—** Within 90 days after October 24, 1992, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall submit a report to the Congress containing definitions of the terms “uncosted obligation”, “committed uncosted obligation”, and “uncommitted uncosted obligation” for purposes of reports to be submitted under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XXIII, § 2307, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3096.)