Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy
§ 10144. Consideration of effect of acquisition of water rights
Statutory text
The Secretary shall give full consideration to whether the development, construction, and operation of a repository may require any purchase or other acquisition of water rights that will have a significant adverse effect on the present or future development of the area in which such repository is located. The Secretary shall mitigate any such adverse effects to the maximum extent practicable.
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.
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Pub. L. 97–425 title I § 124 · 96 Stat. 2201
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10144
(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 124, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2229.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 124, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2229.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 124. consideration of effect of acquisition of water rights The Secretary shall give full consideration to whether 42 USC 10144. the development, construction, and operation of a repository may require any purchase or other acquisition of water rights that will have a significant adverse effect on the present or future development of the area in which such repository is located. The Secretary shall mitigate any such adverse effects to the maximum extent practicable.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision