---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2021g"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2021g"
heading: "Responsibilities of Department of Energy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2021g"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2021g. Responsibilities of Department of Energy

- (a) **Financial and technical assistance—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall, to the extent provided in appropriations Act, provide to those [compact regions](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=6), host [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), and nonmember [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) detemined[^1] by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) to require assistance for purposes of carrying out sections [2021b](/usc/42/2021b.md) to [2021j](/usc/42/2021j.md) of this title—
  - (1) continuing technical assistance to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities under sections [2021b](/usc/42/2021b.md) to [2021j](/usc/42/2021j.md) of this title. Such technical assistance shall include, but not be limited to, technical guidelines for site selection, alternative technologies for [low-level radioactive waste](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=9-A) [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7), volume reduction options, management techniques to reduce low-level waste generation, transportation [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) for shipment of low-level wastes, health and safety considerations in the storage, shipment and [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7) of [low-level radioactive wastes](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=9-A), and establishment of a computerized data-base to monitor the management of [low-level radioactive wastes](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=9-A); and
  - (2) through the end of fiscal year 1993, financial assistance to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities under sections [2021b](/usc/42/2021b.md) to [2021j](/usc/42/2021j.md) of this title.
- (b) **Omitted—**

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “determined”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–573, § 7, as added Pub. L. 99–240, title I, § 102, Jan. 15, 1986, 99 Stat. 1858.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Subsec. (b) of this section, which required the Secretary to prepare and submit to Congress on an annual basis a report on low-level waste disposal, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, item 2 on page 84 of House Document No. 103–7.

Section was enacted as part of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, and not as part of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which comprises this chapter.