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42 USC § 2021g - Responsibilities of Department of Energy 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s2021g"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 2021g - Responsibilities of Department of Energy"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "2021g"
section_name: "Responsibilities of Department of Energy"
chapter_number: 23
chapter_name: "DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 96–573, § 7, as added Pub. L. 99–240, title I, § 102, Jan. 15, 1986, 99 Stat. 1858.)"
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# § 2021g. Responsibilities of Department of Energy

**1** **Financial and technical assistance** The Secretary shall, to the extent provided in appropriations Act, provide to those compact regions, host States, and nonmember States detemined [^1] by the Secretary to require assistance for purposes of carrying out sections 2021b to 2021j of this title—

So in original. Probably should be “determined”.

**(1)** continuing technical assistance to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities under sections 2021b to 2021j of this title. Such technical assistance shall include, but not be limited to, technical guidelines for site selection, alternative technologies for low-level radioactive waste disposal, volume reduction options, management techniques to reduce low-level waste generation, transportation practices for shipment of low-level wastes, health and safety considerations in the storage, shipment and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes, and establishment of a computerized data-base to monitor the management of low-level radioactive wastes; and

**(2)** through the end of fiscal year 1993, financial assistance to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities under sections 2021b to 2021j of this title.

**(b)** **Omitted** 

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 96–573, § 7, as added Pub. L. 99–240, title I, § 102, Jan. 15, 1986, 99 Stat. 1858.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Subsec. (b) of this section, which required the Secretary to prepare and submit to Congress on an annual basis a report on low-level waste disposal, terminated, effective , pursuant to , as amended, set out as a note under , Money and Finance. See, also, item 2 on page 84 of House Document No. 103–7.

Section was enacted as part of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, and not as part of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which comprises this chapter.