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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10246. Monitored retrievable storage

Statutory text

(a)

Construction and operation

Upon enactment of legislation to implement an agreement negotiated under section 10243(a) of this title to site a monitored retrievable storage facility, the Secretary shall construct and operate such facility as part of an integrated nuclear waste management system in accordance with the terms and conditions of such agreement.

(b)

Financial assistance

The Secretary may make grants to any State, Indian tribe, or affected unit of local government to assess the feasibility of siting a monitored retrievable storage facility under this section at a site under the jurisdiction of such State, tribe, or affected unit of local government.

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 § 406 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10246

    Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 406, 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, § 406, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.

Credits

1987 · 2 acts
  1. 1987Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 406, 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. 1330–246.
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(Pub. L. 97–425, title IV, § 406, 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. 1330–246.)

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