[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2488 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2488

To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to conduct an independent 
       safety assessment of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 3, 2006

 Mrs. Clinton 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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission to conduct an independent 
       safety assessment of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

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

SECTION 1. INDEPENDENT SAFETY ASSESSMENT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall submit to Congress a report 
containing the results of--
            (1) a focused, in-depth independent safety assessment of 
        the design, construction, maintenance, and operational safety 
        performance of the systems at the Indian Point Nuclear Power 
        Plant, Reactors 2 and 3, located in Westchester County, New 
        York, including the systems described in section 2; and
            (2) a comprehensive evaluation of the radiological 
        emergency plan for the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, 
        Reactors 2 and 3, conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory 
        Commission and the Department of Homeland Security, which shall 
        include--
                    (A) a detailed explanation of the factual basis on 
                which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal 
                Emergency Management Agency relied (during the period 
                beginning on July 25, 2003, and ending on the date of 
                enactment of this Act) in--
                            (i) approving the radiological emergency 
                        plan; and
                            (ii) making subsequent annual findings of 
                        reasonable assurance that the plan would 
                        adequately protect the public in the event of 
                        an emergency; and
                    (B) a detailed response to each of the criticisms 
                of the radiological emergency plan contained in the 
                Review of Emergency Preparedness of Areas Adjacent to 
                Indian Point and Millstone, published by James Lee Witt 
                Associates on January 10, 2003.

SEC. 2. SYSTEMS.

    The systems referred to in section 1(1) are--
            (1) the reactor protection system;
            (2) the control room ventilation system and the containment 
        ventilation system;
            (3) the 4.16 kV electrical system;
            (4) the condensate system; and
            (5) the spent fuel storage system.

SEC. 3. INDEPENDENT SAFETY ASSESSMENT MODEL.

    The independent safety assessment conducted at the Indian Point 
Nuclear Power Plant under this Act shall be equal in depth and breadth 
to the independent safety assessment of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power 
Plant, located near Bath, Maine, conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission during 1996.
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