Using operation and maintenance funds or facilities and infrastructure funds authorized by a DOE national security authorization, the Secretary of Energy may carry out minor construction projects.
The Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees on an annual basis a report on each exercise of the authority in subsection (a) during the preceding fiscal year. Each report shall provide a brief description of each minor construction project covered by the report. The report shall include with respect to each project the following:
If, at any time during the construction of any minor construction project authorized by a DOE national security authorization, the estimated cost of the project is revised and the revised cost of the project exceeds the minor construction threshold, the Secretary shall immediately submit to the congressional defense committees a report explaining the reasons for the cost variation.
Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary may not start a minor construction project with a total estimated cost of more than $5,000,000 until-
In this section, the term "minor construction project" means any plant project not specifically authorized by law for which the approved total estimated cost does not exceed the minor construction threshold.
50 U.S.C. § 2743
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATIONSection was formerly classified to section 7386b of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 108-136.
AMENDMENTS2022-Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117-263 inserted at end "The report shall include with respect to each project the following:" and added pars. (1) to (3).2021-Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 117-81 added subsec. (d) and redesignated former subsec. (d) as (e).
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
NOTIFICATION Pub. L. 111-84, §3118, 123 Stat. 2709, as amended by Pub. L. 111-383, div. C, title XXXI, §3121(b), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4514, which provided that, notwithstanding section 2743 of title 50, the Secretary of Energy could not start a general plant project with a total estimated cost of more than $5,000,000 until certain conditions were met, was repealed by Pub. L. 117-81, §3115, 135 Stat. 2227.
- congressional defense committees
- The term "congressional defense committees" means-(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.