§ 6266. Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents

• (a) 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) 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)
  • (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) 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) 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.