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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.

  1. 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, 1329–121

  2. Energy 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
  1. 1987Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
  2. 1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5041, , 101 Stat. 1330–243
  3. 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.)

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