---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5850"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5850"
heading: "Unresolved safety issues plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5850"
units:
  - "Chapter 73 — Development of Energy Sources"
  - "Subchapter II — Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Nuclear Whistleblower Protection"
---

# §5850. Unresolved safety issues plan


The Commission shall develop a plan providing for the specification and analysis of unresolved safety issues relating to nuclear reactors and shall take such action as may be necessary to implement corrective measures with respect to such issues. Such plan shall be submitted to the Congress on or before January 1, 1978 and progress reports shall be included in the annual report of the Commission thereafter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–438, title II, § 210, as added Pub. L. 95–209, § 3, Dec. 13, 1977, 91 Stat. 1482.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Another section 210 of Pub. L. 93–438 was renumbered section 211 and is classified to section 5851 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain functions from Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Chairman thereof, see Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1980, 45 F.R. 40561, 94 Stat. 3585, set out as a note under section 5841 of this title.