---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9706"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9706"
heading: "Dissemination of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9706"
units:
  - "Chapter 104 — Nuclear Safety Research, Development, and Demonstration"
---

# §9706. Dissemination of information


The [Secretary](/usc/42/9702.md?p=1) shall assure that full and complete safety-related information resulting from any [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or other activity conducted under this chapter is made available in a timely manner to appropriate committees of Congress, Federal, [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), and local authorities, relevant segments of private industry, the scientific community, and the public.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–567, § 7, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3332.)