---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2279"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2279"
heading: "Applicability of other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2279"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Enforcement of Chapter"
---

# §2279. Applicability of other laws


Sections [2274](/usc/42/2274.md) to [2278b](/usc/42/2278b.md) of this title shall not exclude the applicable provisions of any other laws.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 231, formerly § 229, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 959; renumbered § 231 and amended Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 1015, §§ 6, 7, 70 Stat. 1070; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1956—Act Aug. 6, 1956, § 7, substituted “2274 to 2278b” for “2274 to 2278”.