Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy
§ 10241. “State” defined
Statutory text
For purposes of this subchapter, the term “State” means each of the several States and the District of Columbia.
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 IV § 401 · 96 Stat. 2201
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10241
Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121Energy Policy Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–486 title VIII § 802(b) · 106 Stat. 2776
Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 10241
Pub. L. 102–486 substituted “several States and the District of Columbia.” for “several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, any other territory or possession of the United States, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 102–486 substituted “several States and the District of Columbia.” for “several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, any other territory or possession of the United States, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.”Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Definition of State.— Section 401 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10241) is amended— (1) by striking “States,” the first place it appears and inserting “States and”; and (2) by inserting a period after “District of Columbia” and striking the remainder of the sentence.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.
Amendments
1992—Pub. L. 102–486 substituted “several States and the District of Columbia.” for “several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, any other territory or possession of the United States, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.”
Credits
1987–1992 · 3 acts
- 1987Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
- 1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5041, , 101 Stat. 1330–243
- 1992amended Pub. L. 102–486, title VIII, § 802(b), , 106 Stat. 2923.
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(Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5041, , 101 Stat. 1330–243; amended Pub. L. 102–486, title VIII, § 802(b), , 106 Stat. 2923.)