---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2466"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2466"
heading: "Use of funds for the purchase of options to purchase real property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2466"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — National Nuclear Security Administration"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §2466. Use of funds for the purchase of options to purchase real property

- (a) **Authority—** Subject to the limitation in [subsection (b)](#b), funds authorized to be appropriated for the Administration for the purchase of real property may be expended to purchase options for the purchase of real property.
- (b) **Limitation on price of options—** The price of any option purchased pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) may not exceed the minor construction threshold (as defined in [section 2741 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t50/s2741))).
- (c) **Notice—** Not later than 14 days after the date an option is purchased pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a), the Administrator shall submit to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/50/2471.md?p=5)—
  - (1) a notification of such purchase; and
  - (2) a summary of the rationale for such purchase.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3265, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. C, title XXXI, § 3119, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3055.)