---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2342"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2342"
heading: "Disposal of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2342"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sales of Property for Private Use"
---

# §2342. Disposal of property

- (a) **Property under lease or license agreement—** The [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall offer for [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7) all real property (including such improvements thereon and such fixtures, equipment, and other personal property incident thereto as it may deem appropriate) within the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) which is presently under lease or license agreement with the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) or its [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) management contractor for residential, commercial or industrial, agricultural, church or other [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) use, or which, in the opinion of the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a), is appropriate for such use, other than—
  - (1) structures which in the opinion of the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) should be removed from the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) because of their unsatisfactory type of [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7), condition, or location; or
  - (2) property which in the opinion of the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) should be transferred pursuant to subchapters VI or VII; or
  - (3) property which in the opinion of the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) should be retained by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) for its own use.
- (b) **Discretionary disposal of other real property—** The [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may, but shall not be required to, dispose of any other real property at the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b), whether within or outside of that [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b).
- (c) **Terms and conditions; impairment of rights—** Such property shall be disposed of on such terms and conditions, consistent with this subchapter, as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall prescribe in the national interest, and without regard to any preferences or priorities whatever except those provided for pursuant to this chapter. Transfers by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) of such property shall not impair rights under existing leases and covenants, including any purchase rights therein conferred.

## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 5, § 52, 69 Stat. 476; Pub. L. 87–719, § 9, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 665.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1962—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87–719 added cl. (3).

### 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.