10 U.S.C. § 6124 — Reports on critical difficulties at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities

(a) Reports by Heads of Laboratories and Facilities.— if there is a difficulty at a national security laboratory^* or a nuclear weapons production facility^* that has a significant bearing on confidence in the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon or nuclear weapon type, the head of the laboratory or facility, as the case may be, must submit to the Administrator^* a report on the difficulty. The head of the laboratory or facility must submit the report as soon as practicable after discovery of the difficulty. (b) sending by Administrator.— by 10 days after receipt of a report under subsection (a), the Administrator must send the report (together with the comments of the Administrator) to the congressional defense committees^*, to the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense, and to the President. (c) Inclusion of Reports in Annual Stockpile Assessment.— Any report submitted under subsection (a) must also be submitted to the President and Congress with the matters required to be submitted under section 6117(f) for the year in which that report is submitted.