[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1194 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1194

To direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish guidelines and 
  procedures for tracking, controlling, and accounting for individual 
                     spent fuel rods and segments.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2005

   Mr. Obama 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 direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish guidelines and 
  procedures for tracking, controlling, and accounting for individual 
                     spent fuel rods and segments.

    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 ``Spent Nuclear Fuel Tracking and 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. SPENT FUEL RODS.

    (a) Guidelines.--Not later than 260 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall 
establish--
            (1) specific and uniform guidelines for tracking, 
        controlling, and accounting for individual spent fuel rods or 
        segments at nuclear power plants, including procedures for 
        conducting physical inventories; and
            (2) uniform inspection procedures to verify any action 
        taken by a nuclear power plant to implement those guidelines.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall submit to Congress a 
report describing the progress of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 
establishing the guidelines under subsection (a).
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