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[CITE: 42USC7274a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part C--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 7274a. Defense waste cleanup technology program


(a) Establishment of program

    The Secretary of Energy shall establish and carry out a program of 
research for the development of technologies useful for (1) the 
reduction of environmental hazards and contamination resulting from 
defense waste, and (2) environmental restoration of inactive defense 
waste disposal sites.

(b) Coordination of research activities

    (1) In order to ensure nonduplication of research activities by the 
Department of Energy regarding technologies referred to in subsection 
(a) of this section, the Secretary shall coordinate the research 
activities of the Department of Energy relating to the development of 
such technologies with the research activities of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, and other appropriate 
Federal agencies relating to the same matter.
    (2) To the extent that funds are otherwise available for obligation, 
the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the 
Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, and other 
appropriate Federal agencies for the conduct of research for the 
development of technologies referred to in subsection (a) of this 
section.

(c) Definitions

    As used in this section:
        (1) The term ``defense waste'' means waste, including 
    radioactive waste, resulting primarily from atomic energy defense 
    activities of the Department of Energy.
        (2) The term ``inactive defense waste disposal site'' means any 
    site (including any facility) under the control or jurisdiction of 
    the Secretary of Energy which is used for the disposal of defense 
    waste and is closed to the disposal of additional defense waste, 
    including any site that is subject to decontamination and 
    decommissioning.

(Pub. L. 101-189, div. C, title XXXI, Sec. 3141, Nov. 29, 1989, 103 
Stat. 1679; Pub. L. 105-85, div. C, title XXXI, Sec. 3152(g), Nov. 18, 
1997, 111 Stat. 2042.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, and not as part of the Department of 
Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1997--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 105-85 redesignated subsec. (d) as 
(c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which required Secretary of Energy 
to submit to Congress not later than Apr. 1 each year a report on 
research activities of Department of Energy for development of 
technologies referred to in subsec. (a).
