---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2222"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2222"
heading: "Condemnation of real property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2222"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Compensation for Private Property Acquired"
---

# §2222. Condemnation of real property


Proceedings for condemnation shall be instituted pursuant to the provisions of [section 3113 of title 40](/usc/40/3113.md), and [section 1403 of title 28](/usc/28/1403.md). Sections [3114](/usc/40/3114.md) to [3116](/usc/40/3116.md) and [3118](/usc/40/3118.md) of title 40 shall be applicable to any such proceedings.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 172, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 953; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “section 3113 of title 40” substituted for “the Act approved August 1, 1888, as amended,” and “Sections 3114 to 3116 and 3118 of title 40” substituted for “The Act approved February 26, 1931, as amended,”, on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1813(b) of this title, prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act Aug. 1, 1946, by act Aug. 30, 1954.