Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy
§ 10202. Research on alternatives for permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste
Statutory text
The Secretary shall continue and accelerate a program of research, development, and investigation of alternative means and technologies for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities and Federal research and development activities except that funding shall be made from amounts appropriated to the Secretary for purposes of carrying out this section. Such program shall include examination of various waste disposal options.
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.
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Pub. L. 97–425 title II § 222 · 96 Stat. 2201
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10202
(Pub. L. 97–425, title II, § 222, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2254.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–425, title II, § 222, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2254.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 222. Research on Alternatives for the Permanent Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste.— The Secretary shall continue and accelerate a program of research, development, and investigation of alternative means and technologies for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities and Federal research and development activities except that funding shall be made from amounts appropriated to the Secretary for purposes of carrying out this section. Such program shall include examination of various waste disposal options.
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