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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part C · Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10162. Authorization of monitored retrievable storage

Statutory text

(a)

Nullification of Oak Ridge siting proposal

The proposal of the Secretary (EC–1022, 100th Congress) to locate a monitored retrievable storage facility at a site on the Clinch River in the Roane County portion of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with alternative sites on the Oak Ridge Reservation of the Department of Energy and on the former site of a proposed nuclear powerplant in Hartsville, Tennessee, is annulled and revoked. In carrying out the provisions of sections 10164 and 10165 of this title, the Secretary shall make no presumption or preference to such sites by reason of their previous selection.

(b)

Authorization

The Secretary is authorized to site, construct, and operate one monitored retrievable storage facility subject to the conditions described in sections 10163 through 10169 of this title.

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 § 142 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10162

    Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 142, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 142, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.

Credits

1987 · 2 acts
  1. 1987Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 142, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
  2. 1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5021, , 101 Stat. 1330–232.
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(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 142, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5021, , 101 Stat. 1330–232.)

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