---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2791a"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2791a"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(6), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1458"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2791a"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Atomic Energy Defense Provisions"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Administrative Matters"
  - "Part B — Research and Development"
---

# [§2791a. Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(6), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1458 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, Pub. L. 111–8, div. C, title III, § 308, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 626, related to authorization of portions of appropriated funds for laboratory-directed research and development. See section 6332 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Similar Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following appropriation acts:

Pub. L. 111–85, title III, § 307, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2872.

Pub. L. 110–161, div. C, title III, § 309, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 1968.

Pub. L. 109–103, title III, § 311, Nov. 19, 2005, 119 Stat. 2280.

### Funding for Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Pub. L. 113–76, div. D, title III, § 309, Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 175, which authorized funding for laboratory directed research and development at Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories, was repealed by Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(19), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1459. See section 6333 of Title 10, Armed Forces.