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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 104 — Nuclear Safety Research, Development, and Demonstration

§ 9702. Definitions

Statutory text

For purposes of this chapter—

(1)

the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy;

(2)

the term “Government agency” means any department, agency, commission, or independent establishment in the executive branch of the Federal Government, or any corporation, wholly or partly owned by the United States, which is an instrumentality of the United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Federal Government;

(3)

the term “Commission” means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and

(4)

the term “Advisory Committee” means the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards established by section 2039 of this title.

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 Safety Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980

    Pub. L. 96–567 § 3 · 94 Stat. 3329

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 9702

    (Pub. L. 96–567, § 3, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3329.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–567, § 3, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3329.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. definitions For purposes of this Act— 42 USC 9702. (1) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy; (2) the term “Government agency” means any department, agency, commission, or independent establishment in the executive branch of the Federal Government, or any corporation, wholly or partly owned by the United States, which is an instrumentality of the United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Federal Government; (3) the term “Commission” means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and (4) the term “Advisory Committee” means the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards established by section 29 of the 42 USC 2039. Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–567, § 3, , 94 Stat. 3329.)

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