[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1878 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1878

To amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to prohibit the licensing 
of a permanent or interim nuclear waste storage facility outside the 50 
      States or the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 1996

   Mr. Akaka 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 amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to prohibit the licensing 
of a permanent or interim nuclear waste storage facility outside the 50 
      States or the District of Columbia, 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. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO LICENSE NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE 
              FACILITIES.

    Title I of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10121 et 
seq.) is amended by inserting after section 101 the following:

``SEC. 102. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO LICENSE, CONSTRUCT, OR OPERATE 
              NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE FACILITIES.

    ``The Commission shall not have authority, under this Act or any 
other law, to issue a license for, and it shall be unlawful for any 
person to construct or operate, a facility or repository for interim or 
permanent storage of low-level radioactive waste, high-level 
radioactive waste, or spent nuclear fuel at a place outside 1 of the 50 
States or the District of Columbia.''.
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