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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part B · Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10153. Interim at-reactor storage

Statutory text

The Commission shall, by rule, establish procedures for the licensing of any technology approved by the Commission under section 10198(a) 1 of this title for use at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor. The establishment of such procedures shall not preclude the licensing, under any applicable procedures or rules of the Commission in effect prior to such establishment, of any technology for the storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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 § 133 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10153

    (Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 133, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2230.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 133, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2230.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 133. interim at reactor storage The Commission shall, by rule, establish procedures for the licensing of any technology approved by the Commission under section 219(a) for use at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor. The establishment of such procedures shall not preclude the licensing, under any applicable procedures or rules of the Commission in effect prior to such establishment, of any technology for the storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 10198(a) of this title, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to section 219(a) of Pub. L. 97–425, which is classified to section 10199(a) of this title, and has been translated as section 10198(a) of this title as the probable intent of Congress in view of the subject matter of section 10198(a) which relates to development of technologies for storage of spent nuclear fuel, and the subject matter of section 10199(a) which relates to payments to States and Indian tribes.

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 133, , 96 Stat. 2230.)

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