[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2282 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2282

  To prohibit the use of Global Nuclear Energy Partnership funds for 
                     certain nuclear waste storage.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2007

     Mrs. Schmidt (for herself, Mr. Space, and Mr. Wilson of Ohio) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the use of Global Nuclear Energy Partnership funds for 
                     certain nuclear waste storage.

    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 ``Nuclear Waste Storage Prohibition 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

    The Secretary of Energy shall not use any funds made available for 
the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership initiative for the transfer or 
storage of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste to any 
site that is not a site where facilities for reprocessing of that fuel 
or waste have been constructed or are under construction. No spent 
nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste may be retained for long-
term storage at such a site where facilities for reprocessing of fuel 
or waste have been constructed or are under construction.
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