3.0.0 858 2023-01-13T04:50:18Z 2023-01-13T04:50:18Z Senate S S 2005-04-20 109 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2005-07-01T17:06:26Z Markup by 2005-06-08T19:20:42Z Referred to 2005-04-20T21:47:03Z S. Rept. 109-100 2005-07-01 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 154. Calendars 2005-07-01 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-100. Committee 2005-07-01 Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-100. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee 2005-06-08 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2005-04-20 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4028-4031) IntroReferral 2005-04-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress V000126 Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH] GEORGE VOINOVICH R OH V. N I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK 2005-04-20 True C000174 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] Thomas Carper D DE R. 2005-05-17 False 2005-07-29T04:00:00Z S. 858, Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 http://www.cbo.gov/publication/17064 <p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on June 8, 2005</p> 2005-07-29T04:00:00Z S. 858, Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17064 Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on June 8, 2005 Energy Administrative remedies Americans in foreign countries Antitrust law Black colleges Civil service retirement Collection of accounts Commerce Conflict of interests Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Education Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Export controls Federal aid to education Federal employees Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Graduate education Health Higher education Hispanic Americans Independent regulatory commissions Labor and Employment Law Licenses Minorities Minority education Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear energy research Nuclear engineering Nuclear facilities Nuclear fuels Nuclear power plants Nuclear reactors Nuclear security measures Radioisotopes in medicine Recruiting of employees Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Transportation of hazardous substances Travel costs Uranium Uranium enrichment User charges Energy 00 2005-04-20 Introduced in Senate 2005-06-17T21:17:08Z Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to: (1) repeal the sunset date for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) user fees and annual charges; and (2) revise the formula governing annual charges collected from licensees and certificate holders.

Amends Federal bankruptcy law to except from creditors claims and bankruptcy procedures such funds, assets, or private insurance premiums as are held to comply with NRC decontamination and decommissioning requirements for a nuclear power reactor until such requirements have been satisfactorily completed.

Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide that requirements governing transmissions of license applications to the Attorney General for antitrust review do not apply to a commercial, industrial, or medical license to construct or operate a utilization or production facility if the application is filed on or after, or is pending on, the date of enactment of this Act.

States that the NRC shall not give any consideration to the need for, or any alternative to, the facility to be licensed when conducting any environmental review in connection with a license application or renewal.

Prescribes guidelines for an NRC license to export highly enriched uranium to specified countries for medical isotope production.

Prescribes procedural guidelines governing NRC: (1) cost recovery from government agencies; (2) conflicts of interest relating to contracts and other arrangements; and (3) hearing procedures.

Prescribes guidelines for NRC: (1) support to university nuclear safety, security, and environmental protection programs; (2) payment of promotional items and expenses; (3) scholarship and fellowship program in critical skill areas; (4) partnership program with certain institutions of higher education; and (5) elimination of pension offset for certain rehired federal retirees.

]]> 01 2005-07-01 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2005-08-04T18:59:22Z Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Title I: NRC User Fees - (Sec. 101) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to: (1) extend from September 20, 2005, until September 20, 2011, the last assessment of annual charges; and (2) revise and extend through FY2011 the formula governing annual charges collected from licensees and certificate holders.

Title II: NRC Reform - (Sec. 201) Amends federal bankruptcy law to exclude from the property of the estate in bankruptcy funds accumulated or otherwise designated for decontamination and decommissioning pursuant to a regulation or order of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a nuclear power reactor licensed under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

(Sec. 202) Specifies that the 40-year limit on a combined nuclear power utilization or production facilities is 40 years from the authorization to commence operations.

(Sec. 203) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide that requirements governing transmissions of license applications to the Attorney General for antitrust review do not apply to a commercial, industrial, or medical license to construct or operate a utilization or production facility if the application is filed on or after, or is pending on, the date of enactment of this Act.

(Sec. 204) Prescribes guidelines governing an NRC license to export highly enriched uranium to specified countries for medical isotope production.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to study: (1) the feasibility of procuring supplies of medical isotopes from commercial sources that do not use highly enriched uranium; (2) the current and projected demand and availability of medical isotopes in regular current domestic use; (3) the progress made to eliminate all use of highly enriched uranium in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities; and (4) the potential cost differential in medical isotope production in the reactors and target processing facilities if the products were derived from production systems that do not involve fuels and targets with highly enriched uranium.

(Sec. 205) Revises requirements governing NRC cost recovery from government agencies.

(Sec. 206) Revises requirements with respect to conflicts of interest relating to contracts and other arrangements to declare that, notwithstanding any conflict of interest, the NRC may enter into a contract, agreement, or arrangement with the Department of Energy (DOE) or the operator of a DOE facility, if the NRC determines that: (1) the conflict of interest cannot be mitigated; and (2) adequate justification exists to proceed without its mitigation.

(Sec. 207) Authorizes appropriations for FY2006 and subsequent fiscal years.

Title III: NRC Human Capital Provisions - (Sec. 301) Prescribes guidelines for NRC: (1) support to university nuclear safety, security, and environmental protection programs; (2) purchase of promotional items; (3) authority to pay for transportation, lodging, and subsistence expenses of NRC employees assisting certain other NRC employees, or studying work-related courses at an institution of higher learning, as well as the health and medical expenses of NRC employees serving in foreign countries; (3) scholarship and fellowship programs in critical skill areas; (4) partnership with certain institutions of higher education (including Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and Tribal colleges); and (5) authority to waive the pension offset for certain rehired federal retirees.

(Sec. 307) Authorizes appropriations for FY2006 and subsequent fiscal years.

]]> Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 Display Title Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 Short Titles as Reported to Senate Nuclear Fees Reauthorization Act of 2005 S Senate Official Title as Introduced A bill to reauthorize Nuclear Regulatory Commission user fees, and for other purposes. Reported to Senate 2005-07-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s858rs/xml/BILLS-109s858rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2005-04-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s858is/xml/BILLS-109s858is.xml 2005-07-01 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 154. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.