Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy
§ 10225. Location of test and evaluation facility
Statutory text
Report to Congress
Not later than 1 year after , the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a report setting forth whether the Secretary plans to locate the test and evaluation facility at the site of a repository.
Procedures
If the test and evaluation facility is to be located at any candidate site or repository site (A) site selection and development of such facility shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures and requirements established in subchapter I with respect to the site selection and development of repositories; and (B) the Secretary may not commence construction of any surface facility for such test and evaluation facility prior to issuance by the Commission of a construction authorization for a repository at the site involved.
No test and evaluation facility may be converted into a repository unless site selection and development of such facility was conducted in accordance with the procedures and requirements established in subchapter I with respect to the site selection and development of respositories.1
The Secretary may not commence construction of a test and evaluation facility at a candidate site or site recommended as the location for a repository prior to the date on which the designation of such site is effective under section 10135 of this title.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “repositories.”
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 III § 305 · 96 Stat. 2201
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10225
(Pub. L. 97–425, title III, § 305, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2262.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–425, title III, § 305, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2262.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 305. location of test and evaluation facility (a) Report to Congress.— Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a report setting forth whether the Secretary plans to locate the test and evaluation facility at the site of a repository. (b) Procedures.— (1) If the test and evaluation facility is to be located at any candidate site or repository site (A) site selection and development of such facility shall be conducted in accordance with to the site selection and development of repositories; and (B) the Secretary may not commence construction of any surface facility for such test and evaluation facility prior to issuance by the Commission of a construction authorization for a repository at the site involved. (2) No test and evaluation facility may be converted into a repository unless site selection and development of such facility was conducted in accordance with Ante, p. 2206. the procedures and requirements established in title I with respect to the site selection and development of respositories. (3) The Secretary may not commence construction of a test and evaluation facility at a candidate site or site recommended as the location for a repository prior to the date on which the designation Ante, p. 2217. of such site is effective under section 115.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision