[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1928 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1928

To require the availability of adequate waste emplacement capacity for 
     the future licensing of construction and operation of nuclear 
            utilization facilities, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             March 15 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

    Mr. Wellstone (for himself, Mr. Hatfield, Mr. Jeffords, and Mr. 
  Metzenbaum) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the availability of adequate waste emplacement capacity for 
     the future licensing of construction and operation of nuclear 
            utilization facilities, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Second Generation Nuclear Waste 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMIT AND LICENSING REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 185 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2235) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other law, no construction permit or 
combined construction and operating license shall be issued for a 
utilization facility used for the generation of electricity for 
commercial sale until such time as--
            ``(A) there is a facility licensed by the Federal 
        Government for the permanent emplacement of spent nuclear fuel 
        and high-level radioactive waste from the utilization facility; 
        and
            ``(B) there is an adequate volume of capacity within the 
        emplacement facility to accept all of the spent nuclear fuel 
        and high-level radioactive waste that will be generated by the 
        utilization facility during the reasonably foreseeable 
        operational lifetime of the utilization facility.
    ``(2) At no time shall the total volume of spent fuel and high-
level radioactive waste generated, or reasonably expected to be 
generated, by all utilization facilities used for the generation of 
electricity for commercial sale receiving construction permits or 
combined licenses after the date of enactment of this subsection, 
exceed the total volume of capacity available in facilities licensed by 
the Federal Government for the permanent emplacement of spent nuclear 
fuel and high-level radioactive waste.''.

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