---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2015a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2015a"
heading: "Cold standby"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2015a"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2015a. Cold standby


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) is authorized to expend such funds as may be necessary for the purposes of maintaining enrichment capability at the Portsmouth, Ohio, facility.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 242, as added Pub. L. 107–222, § 1(d)(1), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1336.)