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119th CONGRESS
2d Session |
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.
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
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,
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
(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.