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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part B · Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10157. Transportation

Statutory text

(a)
(1)

 1 Transportation of spent nuclear fuel under section 10156(a) of this title shall be subject to licensing and regulation by the Commission and by the Secretary of Transportation as provided for transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel under existing law.

(2)

The Secretary, in providing for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel under this chapter, shall utilize by contract private industry to the fullest extent possible in each aspect of such transportation. The Secretary shall use direct Federal services for such transportation only upon a determination of the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary, that private industry is unable or unwilling to provide such transportation services at reasonable cost.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

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 § 137 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10157

    (Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 137, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2241.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 137, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2241.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 137. (a) Transportation.— (1) Transportation of spent 42 USC 10157. nuclear fuel under section 136(a) shall be subject to licensing and regulation by the Commission and by the Secretary of Transportation as provided for transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel under existing law. (2) The Secretary, in providing for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel under this Act, shall utilize by contract private industry to the fullest extent possible in each aspect of such transportation. The Secretary shall use direct Federal services for such transportation only upon a determination of the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary, that private industry is unable or unwilling to provide such transportation services at reasonable cost.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 137, , 96 Stat. 2241.)

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