---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2302"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2302"
heading: "Congressional findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2302"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2302. Congressional findings


The Congress of the United States makes the following findings concerning the [communities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) owned by the Atomic Energy [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a):

- (a) The continued morale of [project-connected persons](/usc/42/2304.md?p=j) is essential to the common defense and security of the United States.
- (b) In issuing rules and regulations required or permitted under this chapter for the [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7) of the [communities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) and in disposing of the [communities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and in accordance with the rules and regulations required or permitted by this chapter, the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) is acting under authority delegated to it by the Congress.
- (c) Funds of the United States may be provided for the [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7) of the [communities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) and for assistance in the operation of the [communities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) thereafter under conditions which will provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare.

## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 1, § 12, 69 Stat. 472.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections.