[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2367 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2367

     To provide for the safe disposal of Federal Government-owned 
          transuranic waste for the benefit of all Americans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2011

  Mr. Pearce introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for the safe disposal of Federal Government-owned 
          transuranic waste for the benefit of all Americans.

    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 ``Government Waste Isolation Pilot 
Plant Extension Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT MISSION.

    The Secretary of Energy shall manage WIPP in such a way as to 
include, in addition to the disposal of wastes authorized by section 
213 of the Department of Energy National Security and Military 
Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-
164; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265), the transportation and disposal of any non-
defense Federal Government-owned transuranic waste that can be shown to 
meet the applicable criteria described in the document entitled 
``Transuranic Waste Acceptance Criteria For The Waste Isolation Pilot 
Plant'', published by the Department of Energy on April 21, 2011, or 
any successor document.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Disposal; transuranic waste.--The terms ``disposal'' 
        and ``transuranic waste'' have the meanings given those terms 
        in section 2 of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal 
        Act (Pub. L. 102-579; 106 Stat. 4777).
            (2) WIPP.--The term ``WIPP'' means the Waste Isolation 
        Pilot Plant project authorized under section 213 of the 
        Department of Energy National Security and Military 
        Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 (Pub. 
        L. 96-164; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265).
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