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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part A · Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10143. Title to material

Statutory text

Delivery, and acceptance by the Secretary, of any high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel for a repository constructed under this part shall constitute a transfer to the Secretary of title to such waste or spent fuel.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982

    Pub. L. 97–425 title I § 123 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10143

    (Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 123, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2229.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 123, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2229.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 123. title to material Delivery, and acceptance by the Secretary, of any high-level 42 USC 10143. radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel for a repository constructed under this subtitle shall constitute a transfer to the Secretary of title to such waste or spent fuel.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 123, , 96 Stat. 2229.)

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