§ 10164. Survey

Statutory text

After the MRS Commission submits its report to the Congress under section 10163 of this title, the Secretary may conduct a survey and evaluation of potentially suitable sites for a monitored retrievable storage facility. In conducting such survey and evaluation, the Secretary shall consider the extent to which siting a monitored retrievable storage facility at each site surveyed would—

enhance the reliability and flexibility of the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste established under this chapter;

minimize the impacts of transportation and handling of such fuel and waste;

provide for public confidence in the ability of such system to safely dispose of the fuel and waste;

impose minimal adverse effects on the local community and the local environment;

provide a high probability that the facility will meet applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements in a timely fashion;

provide such other benefits to the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste as the Secretary deems appropriate; and

unduly burden a State in which significant volumes of high-level radioactive waste resulting from atomic energy defense activities are stored.

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.

1987
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Pub. L. 97–425 title I § 144 · 96 Stat. 2201
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10164
Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 144, 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, § 144, 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

1987Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 144, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5021, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–234.

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(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 144, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5021, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–234.)