Fabio
00a184bb3c
Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot -> per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched. LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
84 lines
3.7 KiB
Markdown
84 lines
3.7 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "LegalText"
|
||
title: "10 U.S.C. § 6266"
|
||
description: "Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents"
|
||
jurisdiction: "us"
|
||
corpus: "united_states_code"
|
||
kind: "code_section"
|
||
title_number: 10
|
||
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
|
||
chapter_number: "606"
|
||
chapter_name: "PERSONNEL MATTERS"
|
||
section: "6266"
|
||
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6266"
|
||
status: "current"
|
||
release_point: "119-100"
|
||
release_date: "2026-06-26"
|
||
source: "official"
|
||
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc10@119-100.zip"
|
||
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s6266"
|
||
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-10/usc10.xml"
|
||
source_hash: "6253425d103cf1235cc3f9ad5a60293aa079180da7fef5e11be8a0401396af69"
|
||
raw_snapshot_hash: "06a2679d38355c44f4219c983fdad34009233205d6ba271593a4c1b17a739ec1"
|
||
text_hash: "bf8c8f2a694d86cb51d99b27f6490d4590b10f7475d9d8f752eb123bb8514eb9"
|
||
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
|
||
confidence: "official"
|
||
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
# 10 U.S.C. § 6266 - Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents
|
||
|
||
## Text
|
||
|
||
(a) Notification.— The Secretary of Energy or the Administrator, as the case may be, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notification of a nuclear criticality incident resulting from a covered program that results in an injury or fatality or results in the shutdown, or partial shutdown, of a covered facility by not later than 15 days after the date of such incident.
|
||
|
||
(b) Elements of Notification.— Each notification submitted under subsection (a) shall include the following:
|
||
|
||
(1) A description of the incident, including the cause of the incident.
|
||
|
||
(2) In the case of a criticality incident, whether the incident caused a facility, or part of a facility, to be shut down.
|
||
|
||
(3) The effect, if any, on the mission of the Administration or the Office of Environmental Management of the Department of Energy.
|
||
|
||
(4) Any corrective action taken in response to the incident.
|
||
|
||
(c) Database.— (1) The Secretary shall maintain a record of incidents described in paragraph (2).
|
||
|
||
(2) An incident described in this paragraph is any of the following incidents resulting from a covered program:
|
||
|
||
(A) A nuclear criticality incident that results in an injury or fatality or results in the shutdown, or partial shutdown, of a covered facility.
|
||
|
||
(B) A non-nuclear incident that results in serious bodily injury or fatality at a covered facility.
|
||
|
||
(d) Cooperation.— In carrying out this section, the Secretary and the Administrator shall ensure that each management and operating contractor of a covered facility cooperates in a timely manner.
|
||
|
||
(e) Definitions.— In this section:
|
||
|
||
(1) The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
|
||
|
||
(A) the congressional defense committees; and
|
||
|
||
(B) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.
|
||
|
||
(2) The term “covered facility” means—
|
||
|
||
(A) a facility of the nuclear security enterprise; and
|
||
|
||
(B) a facility conducting activities for the defense environmental cleanup program of the Office of Environmental Management of the Department of Energy.
|
||
|
||
(3) The term “covered program” means—
|
||
|
||
(A) programs of the Administration; and
|
||
|
||
(B) defense environmental cleanup programs of the Office of Environmental Management of the Department of Energy.
|
||
|
||
(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1424, 1462.)
|
||
|
||
## Notes
|
||
|
||
Editorial Notes
|
||
|
||
Prior ProvisionsProvisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2736 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).
|
||
|
||
Amendments2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.
|