---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2136"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2136"
heading: "Classes of facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2136"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter IX — Atomic Energy Licenses"
---

# §2136. Classes of facilities


The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) may—

- (a) group the facilities licensed either under section [2133](/usc/42/2133.md) or [2134](/usc/42/2134.md) of this title into classes which may include either production or [utilization facilities](/usc/42/2014.md?p=cc) or both, upon the basis of the similarity of operating and technical characteristics of the facilities;
- (b) define the various activities to be carried on at each such class of facility; and
- (c) designate the amounts of [special nuclear material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=aa) available for use by each such facility.

## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 106, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 938; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)