[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4440 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4440

 To require the Secretary of Energy to retain and redistribute certain 
                      amounts collected as fines.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2017

  Mrs. Lowey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Energy to retain and redistribute certain 
                      amounts collected as fines.

    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 ``Redistribution of Fines to Our 
Communities Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FUNDS.

    The Secretary of Energy shall retain amounts collected for safety-
related fines pursuant to section 234A of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 
(42 U.S.C. 2282a), and shall distribute the portion of those amounts 
that the Secretary determines appropriate to local governments to 
mitigate any economic impacts in connection with the closure of the 
nuclear facility with respect to which the fines were collected.
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