---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2372"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2372"
heading: "Date of transfer of utilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2372"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter VI — Utilities"
---

# §2372. Date of transfer of utilities


Transfers of [utilities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=l) shall be made as soon as possible, but in any event, not later than five years after August 4, 1955, in the case of Oak Ridge and Richland, or, in the case of Los Alamos, not later than June 30, 1998.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 7, § 72, 69 Stat. 480; Pub. L. 87–719, § 20, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 666; Pub. L. 104–106, div. C, title XXXI, § 3161(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 627.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–106 substituted “not later than June 30, 1998” for “not later than five years after the date it is included within this chapter”.

1962—Pub. L. 87–719 inserted “in the case of Oak Ridge and Richland, or, in the case of Los Alamos, not later than five years after the date it is included within this chapter” after “August 4, 1955,”.