---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2349"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2349"
heading: "Hanford project; disposal of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2349"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sales of Property for Private Use"
---

# §2349. Hanford project; disposal of property


In addition to any other authority the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may have, the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) is authorized, without regard to the provisions of [section 6101 of title 41](/usc/41/6101.md), to lease land, and to sell, lease, including leases with options to purchase, and otherwise dispose of improvements thereon, and such equipment and other personal property as is determined to be directly related thereto, in the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a)’s Hanford [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) in and near Richland, Washington, upon a determination by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) that such disposition will serve to prevent or reduce the adverse economic impact of actual or anticipated reductions in [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) programs in that area: Provided, however, That the compensation to the Government for any such disposition shall be the estimated fair market value or estimated fair rental value of the property as determined by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a): Provided further, That before the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) makes any disposition of property under the authority of this section, the basis for the proposed disposition (with necessary background and explanatory data) shall be submitted to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the [House](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c) of Representatives, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such forty-five-days, there shall be excluded the days on which either [House](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c) is not in session because of adjournment of more than three days): Provided, however, That those Committees, after having received the basis for the proposed disposition, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of, or all or any portion of, such forty-five-day period.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 11, § 120, as added Pub. L. 88–394, § 4, Aug. 1, 1964, 78 Stat. 376; amended Pub. L. 103–437, § 15(i), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4593.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “submitted to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives” for “submitted to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy” and “That those Committees” for “That the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy”.

### 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.