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[CITE: 42USC7274j]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part C--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 7274j. Definitions

    For purposes of sections 7274h to 7274j of this title:
        (1) The term ``Department of Energy defense nuclear facility'' 
    means--
            (A) a production facility or utilization facility (as those 
        terms are defined in section 2014 of this title) that is under 
        the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary and that is 
        operated for national security purposes (including the tritium 
        loading facility at Savannah River, South Carolina, the 236 H 
        facility at Savannah River, South Carolina; and the Mound 
        Laboratory, Ohio), but the term does not include any facility 
        that does not conduct atomic energy defense activities and does 
        not include any facility or activity covered by Executive Order 
        Number 12344, dated February 1, 1982, pertaining to the naval 
        nuclear propulsion program;
            (B) a nuclear waste storage or disposal facility that is 
        under the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary;
            (C) a testing and assembly facility that is under the 
        control or jurisdiction of the Secretary and that is operated 
        for national security purposes (including the Nevada Test Site, 
        Nevada; the Pinnellas Plant, Florida; and the Pantex facility, 
        Texas);
            (D) an atomic weapons research facility that is under the 
        control or jurisdiction of the Secretary (including the Lawrence 
        Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories); or
            (E) any facility described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) 
        that--
                (i) is no longer in operation;
                (ii) was under the control or jurisdiction of the 
            Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, or the 
            Energy Research and Development Administration; and
                (iii) was operated for national security purposes.

        (2) The term ``Department of Energy employee'' means any 
    employee of the Department of Energy employed at a Department of 
    Energy defense nuclear facility, including any employee of a 
    contractor or subcontractor of the Department of Energy employed at 
    such a facility.

(Pub. L. 102-484, div. C, title XXXI, Sec. 3163, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 
Stat. 2647; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, Sec. 1504(c)(2), Feb. 10, 
1996, 110 Stat. 514.)

                       References in Text

    Executive Order Number 12344, referred to in par. (1)(A), is set out 
as a note under section 7158 of this title.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1993, and not as part of the Department of Energy 
Organization Act which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1996--Par. (1)(E). Pub. L. 104-106 substituted ``subparagraphs (A) 
through (D)'' for ``paragraphs (1) through (4)''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    All national security functions and activities performed immediately 
before Oct. 5, 1999, by Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities 
described in this section, transferred to the Administrator for Nuclear 
Security of the National Nuclear Security Administration of the 
Department of Energy, see section 2481 of Title 50, War and National 
Defense.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7274h of this title.
