[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3358 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3358

 To enhance the management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-
 level radioactive waste and to ensure the expansion of clean nuclear 
   power in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and 
                 enhance our domestic energy security.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 3, 2007

 Mr. Upton (for himself and Mr. Towns) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To enhance the management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-
 level radioactive waste and to ensure the expansion of clean nuclear 
   power in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and 
                 enhance our domestic energy security.

    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 ``Renewing Our Commitment to Safe and 
Clean Power Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act:
            (1) ``Commission'';
            (2) ``disposal'';
            (3) ``high-level radioactive waste'';
            (4) ``repository'';
            (5) ``Secretary''; and
            (6) ``spent nuclear fuel''
have the meaning given those terms in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste 
Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101).

SEC. 3. NUCLEAR WASTEFUND.

    (a) Crediting Fees.--Beginning on October 1, 2007, and continuing 
through the end of the fiscal year when construction is complete for 
surface facilities for the fully operational repository as described in 
the license application and for the Nevada rail line, fees collected by 
the Secretary and deposited in the Nuclear Waste Fund under the Nuclear 
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) shall be credited to 
the Nuclear Waste Fund as discretionary offsetting collections each 
year in amounts not to exceed the amounts appropriated from the Nuclear 
Waste Fund for that year.
    (b) Fund Uses.--Section 302(d)(4) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act 
of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222(d)(4)) is amended by inserting 
``infrastructure activities that the Secretary deems are necessary or 
appropriate to support construction or operation of a repository at the 
Yucca Mountain site or transportation to such site of spent nuclear 
fuel and high-level radioactive waste, and'' after ``with''.

SEC. 4. WASTE CONFIDENCE.

    Notwithstanding any other law, in deciding whether to permit the 
construction or operation of a nuclear reactor or any related 
facilities, the Commission shall deem, without further consideration, 
that sufficient capacity will be available in a timely manner to 
dispose of the spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste 
resulting from the operation of the reactor and any related facilities.
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