Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy
§ 2241. Atomic safety and licensing boards; establishment; membership; functions; compensation
Statutory text
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 556(b) and 557(b) of title 5, the Commission is authorized to establish one or more atomic safety and licensing boards, each comprised of three members, one of whom shall be qualified in the conduct of administrative proceedings and two of whom shall have such technical or other qualifications as the Commission deems appropriate to the issues to be decided, to conduct such hearings as the Commission may direct and make such intermediate or final decisions as the Commission may authorize with respect to the granting, suspending, revoking or amending of any license or authorization under the provisions of this chapter, any other provision of law, or any regulation of the Commission issued thereunder. The Commission may delegate to a board such other regulatory functions as the Commission deems appropriate. The Commission may appoint a panel of qualified persons from which board members may be selected.
Board members may be appointed by the Commission from private life, or designated from the staff of the Commission or other Federal agency. Board members appointed from private life shall receive a per diem compensation for each day spent in meetings or conferences, and all members shall receive their necessary traveling or other expenses while engaged in the work of a board. The provisions of section 2203 of this title shall be applicable to board members appointed from private life.
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.
Pub. L. 87–615 § 1 · 76 Stat. 409
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 2241
Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 191, as added Pub. L. 87–615, § 1, Aug. 29, 1962, 76 Stat. 409
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 191, as added Pub. L. 87–615, § 1, Aug. 29, 1962, 76 Stat. 409Pub. L. 91–560 § 10 · 84 Stat. 1472
Changed · 42 U.S.C. § 2241(a)
Pub. L. 91–560 required that two members of the board should have such technical or other qualifications the Commission deems appropriate to the issues to be decided
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–560 required that two members of the board should have such technical or other qualifications the Commission deems appropriate to the issues to be decided.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. The first sentence of subsection 191 a. of the Atomic. Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is amended to read as follows: “Notwithstanding the provisions of 7(a) and 8(a) of the Administrative Procedure Act, the Commission is authorized to establish one or more atomic safety and licensing boards, each comprised of three members, one of whom shall be qualified in the conduct of administrative pro-feedings and two of whom shall have such technical or other qualifications as the Commission deems appropriate to the issues to be decided, to conduct such hearings as the Commission may direct and make such intermediate or final decisions as the Commission may authorize with respect to the granting, suspending, revoking or amending of any license or authorization under the provisions of this Act, any other provision of law, or any regulation of the Commission issued thereunder.”
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919, known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables.
Codification
In subsec. (a), “sections 556(b) and 557(b) of title 5” substituted for “sections 7(a) and 8(a) of the Administrative Procedure Act [5 U.S.C. 1006(a), 1007(a)]” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), , 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1970—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–560 required that two members of the board should have such technical or other qualifications the Commission deems appropriate to the issues to be decided.
Credits
1946–1992 · 3 acts
- 1946Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 191, as added Pub. L. 87–615, § 1, , 76 Stat. 409
- 1970amended Pub. L. 91–560, § 10, , 84 Stat. 1474
- 1992renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), , 106 Stat. 2944.
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(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 191, as added Pub. L. 87–615, § 1, , 76 Stat. 409; amended Pub. L. 91–560, § 10, , 84 Stat. 1474; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), , 106 Stat. 2944.)