[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2518 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2518

  To amend the Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Interstate Compact 
    Consent Act to make the consent of Congress to certain compacts 
contingent on party states sharing the long-term liability for damages 
        caused by radioactive releases from regional facilities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2004

 Mr. Nelson of Nebraska introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Interstate Compact 
    Consent Act to make the consent of Congress to certain compacts 
contingent on party states sharing the long-term liability for damages 
        caused by radioactive releases from regional facilities.

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

SECTION 1. LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY RADIOACTIVE RELEASES FROM 
              REGIONAL FACILITIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 212 of the Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive 
Waste Interstate Compact Consent Act (42 U.S.C. 2021d note; Public Law 
99-240) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) is granted only if the compact provides that all 
        party states to the compact are jointly and severally liable 
        for the cost of long-term liability incurred in connection with 
        the radioactive release from a regional facility in a host 
        state of the compact (in excess of fund available from the 
        extended care and long-term liability fund of the host State 
        and from property and third-party liability insurance), based 
        on the proportionate share of the total volume of waste placed 
        in the regional facilities by generators located in each party 
        state, except that this paragraph shall not apply to a party 
        state with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level 
        radioactive waste manifests for any year that is less than 10 
        percent of the total volume recorded on those manifests for the 
        region during the same year. ''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect on the date that is 3 years after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
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