[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3981 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3981

   To reclassify fees paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting 
                  collections, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2004

Mr. Barton of Texas (by request): introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reclassify fees paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting 
                  collections, 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. NUCLEAR WASTE FUND MANAGEMENT.

    Beginning on October 1, 2004, and continuing through the end of the 
fiscal year when construction is complete for surface facilities for 
the fully operating repository as described in the license application, 
fees collected by the Secretary of Energy and deposited into the 
Nuclear Waste Fund the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 
10101 et seq.) shall be credited to the Nuclear Waste Fund as 
offsetting collections in amounts not to exceed the amounts annually 
appropriated during that period from the Nuclear Waste Fund.

SEC. 2. APPORTIONMENT CONTROLS.

    Section 302(e)(4) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as 
amended, is hereby rescinded.
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