§ 10242. Office of Nuclear Waste Negotiator

Statutory text

Establishment

There is established the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator that shall be an independent establishment in the executive branch.

Nuclear Waste Negotiator

The Office shall be headed by a Nuclear Waste Negotiator who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Negotiator shall hold office at the pleasure of the President, and shall be compensated at the rate provided for level III of the Executive Schedule in section 5314 of title 5.

The Negotiator shall attempt to find a State or Indian tribe willing to host a repository or monitored retrievable storage facility at a technically qualified site on reasonable terms and shall negotiate with any State or Indian tribe which expresses an interest in hosting a repository or monitored retrievable storage facility.

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.

1987
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Pub. L. 97–425 title IV § 402 · 96 Stat. 2201
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10242
Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 402, 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, § 402, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
1988
Pub. L. 100–507 § 1 · 102 Stat. 2541
Amended · 42 U.S.C. § 10242(a)
Pub. L. 100–507 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: “There is established within the Executive Office of the President the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–507 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: “There is established within the Executive Office of the President the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator.”
Enacted provision · exact public law section
SECTION 1. NUCLEAR WASTE NEGOTIATOR. Section 402(a) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is amended 42 USC 10242. to read as follows: “Sec. 402. (a) Establishment.— There is established the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator that shall be an independent establishment in the executive branch.”.

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

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–507 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: “There is established within the Executive Office of the President the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator.”

Credits

1987–1988 · 3 acts

1987Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 402, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5041, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–243
1988amended Pub. L. 100–507, § 1, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2541.

Show as published

(Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 402, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5041, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–243; amended Pub. L. 100–507, § 1, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2541.)