[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1879 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1879

     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

                              May 8, 2013

 Mr. Pearce (for himself and Mr. Reed) 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 2013''.

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 (Public Law 
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 (Public Law 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 
        (Public Law 96-164; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265).
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