There are hereby transferred to the Administrator all national security functions and activities performed immediately before October 5, 1999, by the following elements of the Department of Energy:
The Secretary of Energy may transfer to the Administrator any other facility, mission, or function that the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator and Congress, determines to be consistent with the mission of the Administration.
In the case of any environmental remediation and waste management activity of any element of the Administration, the Secretary of Energy may determine to transfer responsibility for that activity to another element of the Department.
and shall be merged with the funds already credited to that account and accounted for as one fund.
50 U.S.C. § 2481
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2013-Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 112-239, §3132(b)(1)(A), substituted "of the Administration" for "specified in subsection (a)".Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 112-239, §3132(b)(1)(B), added subsec. (d).Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 113-66 realigned margins of concluding provisions. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 112-239, §3132(b)(1)(B), added subsec. (e).
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE Section effective Mar. 1, 2000, see section 3299 of Pub. L. 106-65, set out as a note under section 2401 of this title.
CONSTRUCTION Pub. L. 112-239, div. C, title XXXI, §3132(b)(3), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2186, provided that: "Nothing in section 3291 of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2481), as amended by paragraph (1), may be construed to affect any function or activity transferred by the Secretary of Energy to the Administrator for Nuclear Security before the date of the enactment of this Act [Jan. 2, 2013]."
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the advanced scientific computing research program and activities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, including the functions of the Secretary of Energy relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, see sections 183(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.