---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7279"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7279"
heading: "Identification in budget materials of amounts for certain Department of Energy pension obligations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7279"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part C — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §7279. Identification in budget materials of amounts for certain Department of Energy pension obligations


The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) of Energy shall include in the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Energy budget for a fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the President under [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a)) specific identification, as a budgetary line item, of the amounts required to meet the pension obligations of the Department of Energy for contractor employees at each facility of the Department of Energy operated using amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Energy.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–84, div. C, title XXXI, § 3143, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2716.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.