---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2297g"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2297g"
heading: "Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2297g"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division B — United States Enrichment Corporation"
  - "Subchapter VII — Decontamination and Decommissioning"
---

# §2297g. Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund

- (a) **Establishment—** There is established in the Treasury of the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb) an account to be known as the [Uranium Enrichment](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=14) Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund (referred to in this subchapter as the “Fund”). The Fund, and any amounts deposited in it, including any interest earned thereon, shall be available to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) subject to appropriations for the exclusive purpose of carrying out this subchapter.
- (b) **Administration—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Treasury shall hold the Fund and, after consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2), annually report to the Congress on the financial condition and operations of the Fund during the preceding fiscal year.
  - (2) **Investments—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Treasury shall invest amounts contained within the Fund in obligations of the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb)—
    - (A) having maturities determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Treasury to be appropriate for what the Department determines to be the needs of the Fund; and
    - (B) bearing interest at rates determined to be appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb) with remaining periods to maturity comparable to these obligations.

## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title II, § 1801, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title XI, § 1101, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2953.)