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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part E · Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10172. Selection of Yucca Mountain site

Statutory text

(a)

In general

(1)

The Secretary shall provide for an orderly phase-out of site specific activities at all candidate sites other than the Yucca Mountain site.

(2)

The Secretary shall terminate all site specific activities (other than reclamation activities) at all candidate sites, other than the Yucca Mountain site, within 90 days after .

(b)

Eligibility to enter into benefits agreement

Effective on , the State of Nevada shall be eligible to enter into a benefits agreement with the Secretary under section 10173 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 § 160 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10172

    Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 160, 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, § 160, 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, § 160, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
  2. 1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5011(a), , 101 Stat. 1330–227.
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(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 160, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5011(a), , 101 Stat. 1330–227.)

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