[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4252 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4252

To amend the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act to ensure 
  that economic assistance payments under that Act continue until the 
  closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 26, 2026

Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act to ensure 
  that economic assistance payments under that Act continue until the 
  closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``WIPP Economic Assistance Assurance 
Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS.

    Section 15(a) of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal 
Act (Public Law 102-579; 106 Stat. 4791; 110 Stat. 2854) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``14-year 
        Authorization'' and inserting ``In General''; and
            (2) in the first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``each of the 14 fiscal years 
                beginning with''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``and each fiscal year thereafter 
                through the fiscal year during which transuranic waste 
                shipments to or from WIPP have been terminated'' before 
                the period at the end.
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