[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2389 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2389

  To reauthorize the West Valley demonstration project, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 2017

  Mr. Reed (for himself, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Higgins of New York, and Ms. 
  Slaughter) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reauthorize the West Valley demonstration project, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. WEST VALLEY DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 3 of the West Valley 
Demonstration Project Act (Public Law 96-368; 42 U.S.C. 2021a note) is 
amended by striking ``$5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1981'' and inserting ``$75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 
through 2026''.
    (b) Treatment of Waste.--All radioactive waste at the high level 
radioactive waste management demonstration project at the Western New 
York Service Center in West Valley, New York, carried out under the 
West Valley Demonstration Project Act shall be considered to be waste 
resulting from atomic energy defense activities, as defined in section 
2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101).
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