<num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="II">TITLE II—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">OMNIBUS LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE INTERSTATE COMPACT CONSENT ACT </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/s201" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="201">SEC. 201. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">This Title<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDAD35BC6C82334EC0851DBE3D67599E83" class="footnoteRef">2</ref> may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote"><inline style="-uslm-dtd:short-title">Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Interstate Compact Consent Act</inline></shortTitle>”.</content><footnote id="IDAD35BC6C82334EC0851DBE3D67599E83" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">2</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">So in original. Probably should be “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">title</quotedText>”.</p></footnote> </section> <subtitle style="-uslm-dtd:subtitle; -uslm-dtd-nonstandard:cap-lc 10 no-bold" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA" styleType="nonstandard"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">subtitle A—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">General Provisions </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA/s211" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="211">SEC. 211. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CONGRESSIONAL FINDING. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Congress hereby finds that each of the compacts set forth in subtitle B is in furtherance of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA/s212" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="212">SEC. 212. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CONDITIONS OF CONSENT TO COMPACTS. </heading> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The consent of the Congress to each of the compacts set forth in subtitle B—</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA/s212/1" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall become effective on the date of the enactment of this Act;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA/s212/2" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is granted subject to the provisions of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, as amended; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA/s212/3" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is granted only for so long as the regional commission, committee, or board established in the compact complies with all of the provisions of such Act.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stA/s213" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="213">SEC. 213. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The Congress may alter, amend, or repeal this Act with respect to any compact set forth in subtitle B after the expiration of the 10-year period following the date of the enactment of this Act, and at such intervals thereafter as may be provided in such compact.</content> </section> </subtitle> <subtitle style="-uslm-dtd:subtitle; -uslm-dtd-nonstandard:cap-lc 10 no-bold" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB" styleType="nonstandard"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">subtitle B—</num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Congressional Consent to Compacts </heading> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s221" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="221">SEC. 221. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">NORTHWEST INTERSTATE COMPACT ON LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The consent of Congress is hereby given to the states of Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming to enter into the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, and to each and every part and article thereof. Such compact reads substantially as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"><p style="-uslm-dtd:para" class="centered"><inline class="small-caps" style="-uslm-dtd:smallcaps">Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management</inline></p> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“article i—policy and purpose </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The party states recognize that low-level radioactive wastes are generated by essential activities and services that benefit the citizens of the states. It is further recognized that the protection of the health and safety of the citizens of the party states and the most economical management of low-level radioactive wastes can be accomplished through cooperation of the states in minimizing the amount of handling and transportation required to dispose of such wastes and through the cooperation of the states in providing facilities that serve the region. It is the policy of the party states to undertake the necessary cooperation to protect the health and safety of the citizens of the party states and to provide for the most economical management of low-level radioactive wastes on a continuing basis. It is the purpose of this compact to provide the means for such a cooperative effort among the party states so that the protection of the citizens of the states and the maintenance of the viability of the states' economies will be enhanced while sharing the responsibilities of radioactive low-level waste management.</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“article II—Definitions </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Facility</term>’ means any site, location, structure, or property used or to be used for the storage, treatment, or disposal of low-level waste, excluding federal waste facilities;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Low-level waste</term>’ means waste material which contains radioactive nuclides emitting primarily beta or gamma radiation, or both, in concentrations or quantities which exceed applicable federal or state standards for unrestricted release. Low-level waste does not include waste containing more than ten (10) nanocuries of transuranic contaminants per gram of material, nor spent reactor fuel, nor material classified as either high-level waste or waste which is unsuited for disposal by near-surface burial under any applicable federal regulations;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Generator</term>’ means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or any other entity whatsoever which, as a part of its activities, produces low-level radioactive waste;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“(4) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Host state</term>’ means a state in which a facility is located.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“article iii—regulatory practices </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state hereby agrees to adopt practices which will require low-level waste shipments originating within its borders and destined for a facility within another party state to conform to the applicable packaging and transportation requirements and regulations of the host state. Such practices shall include:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Maintaining an inventory of all generators within the state that have shipped or expect to ship low-level waste to facilities in another party state;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Periodic unannounced inspection of the premises of such generators and the waste management activities thereon;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Authorization of the containers in which such waste may be shipped, and a requirement that generators use only that type of container authorized by the state;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Assurance that inspections of the carriers which transport such waste are conducted by proper authorities, and appropriate enforcement action taken for violations;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After receiving notification from a host state that a generator within the party state is in violation of applicable packaging or transportation standards, the party state will take appropriate action to assure that such violations do not recur. Such action may include inspection of every individual low-level waste shipment by that generator.</content> </paragraph><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="subparagraph">Each party state may impose fees upon generators and shippers to recover the cost of the inspections and other practices under this article. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit any party state's authority to impose additional or more stringent standards on generators or carriers than those required under this article.</continuation> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">article iv—regional facilities </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Facilities located in any party state, other than facilities established or maintained by individual low-level waste generators for the management of their own low-level waste, shall accept low-level waste generated in any party state if such waste has been packaged and transported according to applicable laws and regulations.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No facility located in any party state may accept low-level waste generated outside of the region comprised of the party states, except as provided in article V.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Until such time as paragraph (2) of article IV takes effect, facilities located in any party state may accept low-level waste generated outside of any of the party states only if such waste is accompanied by a certificate of compliance issued by an official of the state in which such waste shipment originated. Such certificate shall be in such form as may be required by the host state, and shall contain at least the following:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The generator's name and address;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A description of the contents of the low-level waste container;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">“(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A statement that the low-level waste being shipped has been inspected by the official who issued the certificate or by his agent or by a representative of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and found to have been packaged in compliance with applicable Federal regulations and such additional requirements as may be imposed by the host state;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">“(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A binding agreement by the state of origin to reimburse any party state for any liability or expense incurred as a result of an accidental release of such waste during shipment or after such waste reaches the facility.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall cooperate with the other party states in determining the appropriate site of any facility that might be required within the region comprised of the party states, in order to maximize public health and safety while minimizing the use of any one (1) party state as the host of such facilities on a permanent basis. Each party state further agrees that decisions regarding low-level waste management facilities in their region will be reached through a good faith process which takes into account the burdens borne by each of the party states as well as the benefits each has received.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The party states recognize that the issue of hazardous chemical waste management is similar in many respects to that of low-level waste management. Therefore, in consideration of the State of Washington allowing access to its low-level waste disposal facility by generators in other party states, party states such as Oregon and Idaho which host hazardous chemical waste disposal facilities will allow access to such facilities by generators within other party states. Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent any party state from limiting the nature and type of hazardous chemical or low-level wastes to be accepted at facilities within its borders or from ordering the closure of such facilities, so long as such action by a host state is applied equally to all generators within the region comprised of the party states.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“(6) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any host state may establish a schedule of fees and requirements related to its facility, to assure that closure, perpetual care, and maintenance and contingency requirements are met, including adequate bonding.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“article v—northwest low-level waste compact committee </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The governor of each party state shall designate one (1) official of that state as the person responsible for administration of this compact. The officials so designated shall together comprise the northwest low-level waste compact committee. The committee shall meet as required to consider matters arising under this compact. The parties shall inform the committee of existing regulations concerning low-level waste management in their states, and shall afford all parties a reasonable opportunity to review and comment upon any proposed modifications in such regulations. Notwithstanding any provision of article IV to the contrary, the committee may enter into arrangements with states provinces, individual generators, or regional compact entities outside the region comprised of the party states for access to facilities on such terms and conditions as the committee may deem appropriate. However, it shall require a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all such members, including the affirmative vote of the member of any party state in which a facility affected by such arrangement is located, for the committee to enter into such arrangement.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">article vi—eligible parties and effective date </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each of the following states is eligible to become a party to this compact: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. As to any eligible party, this compact shall become effective upon enactment into law by that party, but it shall not become initially effective until enacted into law by two (2) states. Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing its approval.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After the compact has initially taken effect pursuant to paragraph (1) of this article, any eligible party state may become a party to this compact by the execution of an executive order by the governor of the state. Any state which becomes a party in this manner shall cease to be a party upon the final adjournment of the next general or regular session of its legislature or July 1, 1983, whichever occurs first, unless the compact has by then been enacted as a statute by that state.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“(3) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Paragraph (2) of article IV of this compact shall take effect on July 1, 1983, if consent is given by Congress. As provided in public law 96–573, Congress may withdraw its consent to the compact after every five (5) year period.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“article vii—severability </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If any provision of this compact, or its application to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, all other provisions of this compact, and the application of all of its provisions to all other persons and circumstances, shall remain valid; and to this end the provisions of this compact are severable.”</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section></quotedContent>.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s222" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="222">SEC. 222. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CENTRAL INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The consent of Congress is hereby given to the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma to enter into the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact, and to each and every part and article thereof. Such compact reads substantially as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"><p style="-uslm-dtd:para" class="centered"><inline class="small-caps" style="-uslm-dtd:smallcaps">CENTRAL INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT</inline></p> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article I. Policy and Purpose </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The party states recognize that each state is responsible for the management of its non-federal low-level radioactive wastes. They also recognize that the Congress, by enacting the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (Public Law 96–573) has authorized and encouraged states to enter into compacts for the efficient management of wastes. It is the policy of the party states to cooperate in the protection of the health, safety and welfare of their citizens and the environment and to provide for and encourage the economical management of low-level radioactive wastes. It is the purpose of this compact to provide the framework for such a cooperative effort; to promote the health, safety and welfare of the citizens and the environment of the region; to limit the number of facilities needed to effectively and efficiently manage low-level radioactive wastes and to encourage the reduction of the generation thereof; and to distribute the costs, benefits and obligations among the party states.</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article II. Definitions </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Commission</term>’ means the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">disposal</term>’ means the isolation and final disposition of waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">extended care</term>’ means the care of a regional facility including necessary corrective measures subsequent to its active use for waste management until such time as the regional facility no longer poses a threat to the environment or public health;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">facility</term>’ means any site, location, structure or property used or to be used for the management of waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">generator</term>’ means any person who, in the course of or as incident to manufacturing, power generation, processing, medical diagnosis and treatment, biomedical research, other industrial or commercial activity, other research or mining in a party state, produces or processes waste. ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Generator</quotedText>’ does not include any person who receives waste generated outside the region for subsequent shipment to a regional facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">host state</term>’ means any party state in which a regional facility is situated or is being developed;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">low-level radioactive waste</term>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">waste</quotedText>’ means, as defined in the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (Public Law 96–573), radioactive waste not classified as: High-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct material as defined in section 11 e.(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended through 1978.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">management of waste</term>’ means the storage, treatment or disposal of waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">notification of each party state</term>’ means transmittal of written notice to the Governor, presiding officer of each legislative body and any other persons designated by the party state's Commission member to receive such notice;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">party state</term>’ means any state which is a signatory party to this compact;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">person</term>’ means any individual, corporation, business enterprise, or other legal entity, either public or private;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">region</term>’ means the area of the party states;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">regional facility</term>’ means a facility which is located within the region and which has been approved by the Commission for the benefit of the party States;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">“n. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">site</term>’ means any property which is owned or leased by a generator and is contiguous to or divided only by a public or private way from the source of generation;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">“o. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">state</term>’ means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands or any other territorial possession of the United States;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="p">“p. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">storage</term>’ means the holding of waste for treatment or disposal; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="q">“q. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">treatment</term>’ means any method, technique or process, including storage for radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or composition of any waste in order to render such waste after for transport or management, amendable for recovery, convertible to another usable material, or reduced in volume.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e336" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article III. Rights and Obligations</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be provided within the region one or more regional facilities which together provide sufficient capacity to manage all wastes generated within the region. It shall be the duty of regional facilities to accept compatible wastes generated in and from party states, and meeting the requirements of this Act, and each party state shall have the right to have the wastes generated within its borders managed at such facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent authorized by Federal law and host State law, a host state shall regulate and license any regional facility within its borders and ensure the extended care of such facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Rates shall be charged to any user of the regional facility, set by the operator of a regional facility and shall be fair and reasonable and be subject to the approval of the host state. Such approval shall be based upon criteria established by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state may establish fees which shall be charged to any user of a regional facility and which shall be in addition to the rates approved pursuant to section c. of this Article, for any regional facility within its borders. Such fees shall be reasonable and shall provide the host state with sufficient revenue to cover any costs associated with such facilities. If such fees have been reviewed and approved by the Commission and to the extent that such revenue is insufficient, all party states shall share the costs in a manner to be determined by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent authorized by Federal law, each party state is responsible for enforcing any applicable Federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to the packaging and transportation of waste generated within or passing through its borders and shall adopt practices that will ensure that waste shipments originating within its borders and destined for a regional facility will conform to applicable packaging and transportation laws and regulations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state has the right to rely on the good faith performance of each other party state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Unless authorized by the Commission, it shall be unlawful after January 1, 1986, for any person:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to deposit at a regional facility, waste not generated within the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to accept, at a regional facility, waste not generated within the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to export from the region, waste which is generated within the region; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">to transport waste from the site at which it is generated, except to a regional facility.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e383" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article IV. The Commission</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby established the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. The Commission shall consist of one voting member from each party state to be appointed according to the laws of each state. The appointing authority of each party state shall notify the Commission in writing of the identity of its member and any alternates. An alternate may act on behalf of the member only in the absence of such member. Each state is responsible for the expenses of its member of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each Commission member shall be entitled to one vote. Unless otherwise provided herein, no action of the Commission shall be bonding unless a majority of the total membership casts its vote in the affirmative.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall elect from among its membership a chairman. The Commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, by-laws and policies which are not inconsistent with this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall meet at least once a year and shall also meet upon the call of the chairman, by petition of a majority of the membership or upon the call of a host state member.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may initiate any proceedings or appear as an intervenor or party in interest before any court of law, or any Federal, state or local agency, board or Commission that has jurisdiction over any matter arising under or relating to the terms of the provisions of this compact. The Commission shall determine in which proceedings it shall intervene or otherwise appear and may arrange for such expert testimony, reports, evidence or other participation in such proceedings as may be necessary to represent its views.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may establish such committees as it deems necessary for the purpose of advising the Commission on any and all matters pertaining to the management of waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may employ and compensate a staff limited only to those persons necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The Commission may also contract with and designate any person to perform necessary functions to assist the Commission. Unless otherwise required by the acceptance of a Federal grant, the staff shall serve at the Commission's pleasure irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit laws of any of the party states or the Federal government and shall be compensated from funds of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funding for the Commission shall be as follows:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall set and approve its first annual budget as soon as practicable after its initial meeting. Party states shall equally contribute to the Commission budget on an annual basis, an amount not to exceed $25,000 until surcharges are available for that purpose. Host states shall begin imposition of the surcharges provided for in this section as soon as practicable and shall remit to the Commission funds resulting from collection of such surcharges within 60 days of their receipt; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each state hosting a regional facility shall annually levy surcharges on all users of such facilities, based on the volume and characteristics of wastes received at such facilities, the total of which:</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall be sufficient to cover the annual budget of the Commission; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">shall be paid to the Commission, provided, however, that each host state collecting such surcharges may retain a portion of the collection sufficient to cover the administrative costs of collection, and that the remainder be sufficient only to cover the approved annual budget of the Commission.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. An independent certified public accountant shall annually audit all receipts and disbursements of Commission funds and submit an audit report to the Commission. Such audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the Commission required by this Article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions any and all donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services, conditional or otherwise from any person and may receive, utilize and dispose of same. The nature, amount and conditions, if any, attendant upon any donation or grant accepted pursuant to this section, together with the identity of the donor, grantor or lender, shall be detailed in the annual report of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k.</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as otherwise provided herein, nothing in this compact shall be construed to alter the incidence of liability of any kind for any act, omission, course of conduct, or on account of any casual or other relationships. Generators, transporters of waste, owners and operators of facilities shall be liable for their acts, omissions, conduct or relationships in accordance with all laws relating thereto.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission herein established is a legal entity separate and distinct from the party states and shall be so liable for its actions. Liabilities of the Commission shall not be deemed liabilities of the party states. Members of the Commission shall not be personally liable for actions taken by them in their official capacity.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any person or party state aggrieved by a final decision of the Commission may obtain judicial review of such decisions in the United States District Court in the District wherein the Commission maintains its headquarters by filing in such court a petition for review within 60 days after the Commission's final decision. Proceedings thereafter shall be in accordance with the rules of procedure applicable in such court.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Receive and approve the application of a non-party state to become a party state in accordance with article VII;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">submit an annual report, and otherwise communicate with, the Governors and the presiding officers of the legislative bodies of the party states regarding the activities of the Commission;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">hear and negotiate disputes which may arise between the party states regarding this compact;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require of and obtain from the party states, and non-party states seeking to become party states, data and information necessary to the implementation of Commission and party states' responsibilities;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">approve the development and operation of regional facilities in accordance with Article V;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">notwithstanding any other provision of this compact, have the authority to enter into agreements with any person for the importation of waste into the region and for the right of access to facilities outside the region for waste generated within the region. Such authorization to import or export waste requires the approval of the Commission, including the affirmative vote of any host state which may be affected;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">revoke the membership of a party state in accordance with Articles V and VII;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“8. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require all party states and other persons to perform their duties and obligations arising under this compact by an appropriate action in any forum designated in section e. of Article IV; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">“9. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">take such action as may be necessary to perform its duties and functions as provided in this compact.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e496" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article V. Development and Operation of Regional Facilities</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Following the collection of sufficient data and information from the states, the Commission shall allow each party state the opportunity to volunteer as a host for a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If no state volunteers or if no proposal identified by a volunteer state is deemed acceptable by the Commission, based on the criteria in section c. of this Article, then the Commission shall publicly seek applicants for the development and operation of regional facilities.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall review and consider each applicant's proposal based upon the following criteria:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The capability of the applicant to obtain a license from the applicable authority;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the economic efficiency of each proposed regional facility, including the total estimated disposal and treatment costs per cubic foot of waste;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">financial assurances;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">accessibility to all party states; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">such other criteria as shall be determined by the Commission to be necessary for the selection of the best proposal, based on the health, safety and welfare of the citizens in the region and the party states.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall make a preliminary selection of the proposal or proposals considered most likely to meet the criteria enumerated in section c. and the needs of the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Following notification of each party state of the results of the preliminary selection process, the Commission shall:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Authorize any person whose proposal has been selected to pursue licensure of the regional facility or facilities in accordance with the proposal originally submitted to the Commission or as modified with the approval of the Commission; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">require the appropriate state or states or the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to process all applications for permits and licenses required for the development and operation of any regional facility or facilities within a reasonable period from the time that a completed application is submitted.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The preliminary selection or selections made by the Commission pursuant to this Article shall become final and receive the Commission's approval as a regional facility upon the issuance of license by the licensing authority. If a proposed regional facility fails to become licensed, the Commission shall make another selection pursuant to the procedures identified in this Article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may, by two-thirds affirmative vote of its membership, revoke the membership of any party state which, after notice and hearing, shall be found to have arbitrarily or capriciously denied or delayed the issuance of a license or permit to any person authorized by the Commission to apply for such license or permit. Revocation shall be in the same manner as provided for in section e. of Article VII.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e555" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article VI. Other Laws and Regulations</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this compact shall be construed to:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Abrogate or limit the applicability of any act of Congress or diminish or otherwise impair the jurisdiction of any Federal agency expressly conferred thereon by the Congress;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">prevent the application of any law which is not otherwise inconsistent with this compact;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">prohibit or otherwise restrict the management and waste on the site where it is generated if such is otherwise lawful;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">affect any judicial or administrative proceeding pending on the effective date of this compact;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">alter the relations between, and the respective internal responsibilities of, the government of a party state and its subdivisions; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">affect the generation or management of waste generated by the Federal government or federal research and development activities.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No party state shall pass or enforce any law or regulation which is inconsistent with this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All laws and regulations or parts thereof of any party state which are inconsistent with this compact are hereby declared null and void for purposes of this compact. Any legal right, obligation, violation or penalty arising under such laws or regulations prior to enactment of this compact shall not be affected.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No law or regulation of a party state or of any subdivision or instrumentality thereof may be applied so as to restrict or make more costly or inconvenient access to any regional facility by the generators of another party state than for the generators of the state where the facility is situated.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e597" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article VII. Eligible Parties, Withdrawal, Revocation, Entry Into Force, Termination</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This compact shall have as initially eligible parties the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma. Such initial eligibility shall terminate on January 1, 1984.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any state may petition the Commission for eligibility. A petitioning state shall become eligible for membership in the compact upon the unanimous approval of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An eligible state shall become a member of the compact and shall be bound by it after such state has enacted the compact into law. In no event shall the compact take effect in any state until it has been entered into force as provided for in section f. of this Article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repeating the same. Unless permitted earlier by unanimous approval of the Commission, such withdrawal shall take effect five-years after the Governor of the withdrawing state has given notice in writing of such withdrawal to each Governor of the party states. No withdrawal shall affect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a party state prior to the time of such withdrawal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state which fails to comply with the terms of this compact or fulfill its obligations hereunder may, after notice and hearing, have its privileges suspended or its membership in the compact revoked by the Commission. Revocation shall take effect one year from the date such party state receives written notice from the Commission of its action. The Commission may require such party state to pay to the Commission, for a period not to exceed five-years from the date of notice of revocation, an amount determined by the Commission based on the anticipated fees which the generators of such party state would have paid to each regional facility and an amount equal to that which such party state would have contributed in accordance with section d. of Article III, in the event of insufficient revenues. The Commission shall use such funds to ensure the continued availability of safe and economical waste management facilities for all remaining party states. Such state shall also pay an amount equal to that which such party state would have contributed to the annual budget of the Commission if such party state would have remained a member of the compact. All legal rights established under this compact of any party state which has its membership revoked shall cease upon the effective date of revocation; however, any legal obligations of such party state arising prior to the effective date of revocation shall not cease until they have been fulfilled. Written notice of revocation of any state's membership in the company shall be transmitted immediately following the vote of the Commission, by the chairman, to the Governor of the affected party state, all other Governors of the party states and the Congress of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This compact shall become effective after enactment by at least three eligible states and after consent has been given to it by the Congress. The Congress shall have the opportunity to withdraw such consent every five-years. Failure of the Congress to withdraw its consent affirmatively shall have the effect of renewing consent for an additional five-year period. The consent given to this compact by the Congress shall extend to any future admittance of new party states under sections b. and c. of this Article and to the power to ban the exportation of waste pursuant to Article III.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The withdrawal of a party state from this compact under section d. of this Article or the revocation of a state's membership in this compact under section 3. of this Article shall not affect the applicability of this compact to the remaining party states.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This compact shall be terminated when all party states have withdrawn pursuant to section d. of this Article.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e632" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article VIII. Penalties</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state, consistent with its own law, shall prescribe and enforce penalties against any person for violation of any provision of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state acknowledges that the receipt by a regional facility of waste packaged or transported in violation of applicable laws and regulations can result in sanctions which may include suspension or revocation of the violator's right of access to the regional facility.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article IX. Severability and Construction </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the Constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If any provision of this compact shall be held contrary to the Constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to give effect to the purpose thereof.”</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section></quotedContent>.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s223" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="223">SEC. 223. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">In accordance with section 4(a)(2) of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 2021d(a)(2)), the consent of the Congress is hereby given to the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to enter into the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. Such compact is substantially as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"><p style="-uslm-dtd:para" class="centered"><inline class="small-caps" style="-uslm-dtd:smallcaps">Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact</inline></p><p style="-uslm-dtd:para" class="centered"><inline class="small-caps" style="-uslm-dtd:smallcaps">Article 1</inline></p> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“POLICY AND PURPOSE </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party States recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the State for disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most efficiently on a regional basis. The party states further recognize that the Congress of the United States, by enacting the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (Public Law 96–573), has provided for and encouraged the development of low-level radioactive waste compacts as a tool for disposal of such waste. The party states recognize that the safe and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste generated within the region requires that sufficient capacity to dispose of such waste be properly provided.</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“It is the policy of the party states to: enter into a regional low-level radioactive waste management compact for the purpose of providing the instrument and framework for a cooperative effort; provide sufficient facilities for the proper management of low-level radioactive waste generated in the region; promote the health and safety of the region; limit the number of facilities required to effectively and efficiently manage low-level radioactive waste generated in the region; encourage the reduction of the amounts of low-level waste generated in the region; distribute the costs, benefits, and obligations of successful low-level radioactive waste management equitably among the party states; and ensure the ecological and economical management of low-level radioactive wastes.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">“Implicit in the Congressional consent to this compact is the expectation by Congress and the party states that the appropriate federal agencies will actively assist the Compact Commission and the individual party states to this compact by:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">expeditious enforcement of federal rules, regulations, and laws;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">imposing sanctions against those found to be in violation of federal rules, regulations, and laws;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">timely inspection of their licensees to determine their capability to adhere to such rules, regulations, and laws;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">timely provision of technical assistance to this compact in carrying out their obligations under the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, as amended.</chapeau><foreign id="warning-d2134372e690" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 2</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“DEFINITIONs </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Commission</term>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Compact Commission</quotedText>’ means the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Facility</term>’ means a parcel of land, together with the structure, equipment, and improvements thereon or appurtenant thereto, which is used or is being developed for the treatment, storage, or disposal of low-level radioactive waste.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Generator</term>’ means any person who produces or processes low-level radioactive waste in the course of, or as an incident to, manufacturing, power generation, processing, medical diagnosis and treatment, research, or other industrial or commercial activity. This does not include persons who provide a service to generators by arranging for the collection, transportation, storage, or disposal of wastes with respect to such waste generated outside the region.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">High-level waste</term>’ means irradiated reactor fuel, liquid wastes from reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel, and solids into which such liquid wastes have been converted, and other high-level radioactive waste as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Host state</term>’ means any state in which a regional facility is situated or is being developed.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Low-level radioactive waste</term>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">waste</quotedText>’ means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or by-product material as defined in Section 11e, (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, or as may be further defined by Federal law or regulation.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Party state</term>’ means any state which is a signatory party to this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“8. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Person</term>’ means any individual, corporation, business enterprise, or other legal entity (either public or private).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">“9. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Region</term>’ means the collective party states.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">“10. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Regional facility</term>’ means (1) a facility as defined in this article which has been designated, authorized, accepted, or approved by the Commission to receive waste or (2) the disposal facility in Barnwell County, South Carolina, owned by the State of South Carolina and as licensed for the burial of low-level radioactive waste on July 1, 1982, but in no event shall this disposal facility serve as a regional facility beyond December 31, 1992.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">“11. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">State</term>’ means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any other territorial possession of the United States.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="12">“12. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Transuranic wastes</term>’ means waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels as determined by the regulations of (1) the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or (2) any host state, if it is an agreement state under Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13">“13. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Waste management</term>’ means the storage, treatment, or disposal of waste.</chapeau><foreign id="warning-d2134372e768" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 3</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rights granted to the party states by this compact are additional to the rights enjoyed by sovereign states, and nothing in this compact shall be construed to infringe upon, limit, or abridge those rights.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to any license issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or a host state, each party state shall have the right to have all wastes generated within its borders stored, treated, or disposed of, as applicable, at regional facilities and, additionally, shall have the right of access to facilities made available to the region through agreements entered into by the Commission pursuant to article 4(e)(9). The right of access by a generator within a party state to any regional facility is limited by its adherence to applicable state and federal law and regulation.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If no operating regional facility is located within the borders of a party state and the waste generated within its borders must therefore be stored, treated, or disposed of at a regional facility in another party state, the party state without such facilities may be required by the host state or states to establish a mechanism which provides compensation for access to the regional facility according to terms and conditions established by the host state or states and approved by a two-thirds vote of the Commission.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">“(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state must establish the capability to regulate, license, and ensure the maintenance and extended care of any facility within its borders. Host states are responsible for the availability, the subsequent post-closure observation and maintenance, and the extended institutional control of their regional facilities in accordance with the provisions of Article 5, Section (b).</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">“(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state must establish the capability to enforce any applicable federal or state laws and regulations pertaining to the packaging and transportation of waste generated within or passing through its borders.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">“(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state must provide to the Commission on an annual basis any data and information necessary to the implementation of the Commission's responsibilities. Each party state shall establish the capability to obtain any data and information necessary to meet its obligation.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="F">“(F) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state must, to the extent authorized by federal law, require generators within its borders to use the best available waste management technologies and practices to minimize the volumes of waste requiring disposal.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e800" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 4</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">THE COMMISSION </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission (‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Commission</quotedText>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Compact Commission</quotedText>’). The Commission shall consist of two voting members from each party state to be appointed according to the laws of each state. The appointing authorities of each state must notify the Commission in writing of the identity of its members and any alternates. An alternate may act on behalf of the member only in the member's absence.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each commission member is entitled to one vote. No action of the Commission shall be binding unless a majority of the total membership cast their vote in the affirmative, or unless a greater than majority vote is specifically required by any other provision of this compact.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">“(C) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission must elect from among its members a presiding officer. The Commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, bylaws which are consistent with this compact.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="D">“(D) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission must meet at least once a year and also meet upon the call of the presiding officer, by petition of a majority of the party states, or upon the call of a host state. All meetings of the Commission must be open to the public.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="E">“(E) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission has the following duties and powers:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To receive and approve the application of a nonparty state to become an eligible state in accordance with the provisions of Article 7(b).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To receive and approve the application of a nonparty state to become an eligible state in accordance with the provisions of Article 7(c).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To submit an annual report and other communications to the Governors and to the presiding officer of each body of the legislature of the party states regarding the activities of the Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To develop and use procedures for determining, consistent with consideration for public health and safety, the type and number of regional facilities which are presently necessary and which are projected to be necessary to manage waste generated within the region.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To provide the party states with reference guidelines for establishing the criteria and procedures for evaluating alternative locations for emergency or permanent regional facilities.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">To develop and adopt, within one year after the Commission is constituted as provided in Article 7(d) procedures and criteria for identifying a party state as a host state for a regional facility as determined pursuant to the requirements of this article. In accordance with these procedures and criteria, the Commission shall identify a host state for the development of a second regional disposal facility within three years after the Commission is constituted as provided for in Article 7(d), and shall seek to ensure that such facility is licensed and ready to operate as soon as required but in no event later than 1991.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“In developing criteria, the Commission must consider the following; the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the party states; the existence of regional facilities within each party state; the minimization of waste transportation; the volumes and types of wastes generated within each party state; and the environmental, economic, and ecological impacts on the air, land, and water resources of the party states.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“The Commission shall conduct such hearings, require such reports, studies, evidence, and testimony, and do what is required by its approved procedures in order to identify a party state as a host state for a needed facility.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In accordance with the procedures and criteria developed pursuant to Section (e)(6) of this Article, to designate, by a two-thirds vote, a host state for the establishment of a needed regional facility. The Commission shall not exercise this authority unless the party states have failed to voluntarily pursue the development of such facility. The Commission shall have the authority to revoke the membership of a party state that willfully creates barriers to the siting of a needed regional facility.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“8. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To require of and obtain from party states, eligible states seeking to become party states, and nonparty states seeking to become eligible states, data and information necessary to the implementation of Commission responsibilities.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">“9. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notwithstanding any other provision of this compact, to enter into agreements with any person, state, or similar regional body or group of states for the importation of waste into the region and for the right of access to facilities outside the region for waste generated within the region. The authorization to import requires a two-thirds majority vote of the Commission, including an affirmative vote of both representatives of a host state in which any affected regional facility is located. This shall be done only after an assessment of the affected facility's capability to handle such wastes.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">“10. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To act or appear on behalf of any party state or states, only upon written request of both members of the Commission for such state or states as an intervenor or party in interest before Congress, state legislatures, any court of law, or any federal, state, or local agency, board, or commission which has jurisdiction over the management of wastes. The authority to act, intervene, or otherwise appear shall be exercised by the Commission, only after approval by a majority vote of the Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">“11. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">To revoke the membership of a party state in accordance with Article 7(f).</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“F. The Commission may establish any advisory committees as it deems necessary for the purpose of advising the Commission on any matters pertaining to the management of low-level radioactive waste.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“G. The Commission may appoint or contract for and compensate such limited staff necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The staff shall serve at the Commission's pleasure irrespective of the civil service, personnel, or other merit laws of any of the party states or the federal government and shall be compensated from funds of the Commission. In selecting any staff, the Commission shall assure that the staff has adequate experience and formal training to carry out such functions as may be assigned to it by the Commission. If the Commission has a headquarters it shall be in a party state.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“H. Funding for the Commission must be provided as follows:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each eligible state, upon becoming a party state, shall pay twenty-five thousand dollars to the Commission which shall be used for costs of the Commission's services.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each state hosting a regional disposal facility shall annually levy special fees or surcharges on all users of such facility, based upon the volume of wastes disposed of at such facilities, the total of which:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">must be sufficient to cover the annual budget of the Commission;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">must represent the financial commitments of all party states to the Commission;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">must be paid to the Commission;</chapeau><continuation style="-uslm-dtd:continuation-text" role="paragraph"><i style="-uslm-dtd:italic">Provided, however, </i>That each host state collecting such fees or surcharges may retain a portion of the collection sufficient to cover its administrative costs of collection and that the remainder be sufficient only to cover the approved annual budgets of the Commission.</continuation> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission must set and approve its first annual budget as soon as practicable after its initial meeting. Host states for disposal facilities must begin imposition of the special fees and surcharges provided for in this section as soon as practicable after becoming party states and must remit to the Commission funds resulting from collection of such special fees and surcharges within sixty days of their receipt.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“I. The Commission must keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. An independent certified public accountant shall annually audit all receipts and disbursements of Commission funds and submit an audit report to the Commission. The audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the Commission required by Article 4(e)(3).</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“J. The Commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions any and all donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services (conditional or otherwise) from any state, or the United States, or any subdivision or agency thereof, or interstate agency, or from any institution, person, firm, or corporation, and may receive, utilize, and dispose of the same. The nature, amount, and condition, if any, attendant upon any donation or grant accepted pursuant to this section, together with the identity of the donor, grantor, or lender shall be detailed in the annual report to the Commission.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“K. The Commission is not responsible for any costs associated with:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the creation of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the operation of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the stabilization and closure of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the post-closure observation and maintenance of any facility, or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“(5) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the extended institutional control, after post-closure observation and maintenance of any facility.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“L. As of January 1, 1986, the management of wastes at regional facilities is restricted to wastes generated within the region, and to wastes generated within nonparty states when authorized by the Commission pursuant to the provisions of this compact. After January 1, 1986, the Commission may prohibit the exportation of waste from the region for the purposes of management.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“M. 1. The Commission herein established is a legal entity separate and distinct from the party states capable of acting in its own behalf and is liable for its actions. Liabilities of the Commission shall not be deemed liabilities of the party states. Members of the Commission shall not personally be liable for action taken by them in their official capacity.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as specifically provided in this compact, nothing in this compact shall be construed to alter the incidence of liability of any kind for any act, omission, course of conduct, or on account of any causal or other relationships. Generators and transporters of wastes and owners and operators of sites shall be liable for their acts, omissions, conduct, or relationships in accordance with all laws relating thereto.</chapeau><foreign id="warning-d2134372e965" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 5</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF FACILITIES </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A. Any party state which becomes a host state in which a regional facility is operated shall not be designated by the Compact Commission as a host state for an additional regional facility until each party state has fulfilled its obligation, as determined by the Commission, to have a regional facility operated within its borders.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“B. A host state desiring to close a regional facility located within its borders may do so only after notifying the Commission in writing of its intention to do so and the reasons therefor. Such notification shall be given to the Commission at least four years prior to the intended date of closure. Notwithstanding the four-year notice requirement herein provided, a host state is not prevented from closing its facility or establishing conditions of its use and operations as necessary for the protection of the health and safety of its citizens. A host state may terminate or limit access to its regional facility if it determines that Congress has materially altered the conditions of this compact.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“C. Each party state designated as a host state for a regional facility shall take appropriate steps to ensure that an application for a license to construct and operate a facility of the designated type is filed with and issued by the appropriate authority.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“D. No party state shall have any form of arbitrary prohibition on the treatment, storage, or disposal of low-level radioactive waste within its borders.<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDE9B8C72B66F94E6D811D5AE7F9E4CFA0" class="footnoteRef">1</ref></content><footnote id="IDE9B8C72B66F94E6D811D5AE7F9E4CFA0" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">1</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Article 5, as set forth here, has been amended by adding a new section at the end. The consent of Congress was granted to the amendment in the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Amendments Consent Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101–171), which appears elsewhere in this compilation.</p></footnote><foreign id="warning-d2134372e993" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 6</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“OTHER LAWS AND REGULATIONS </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A. Nothing in this compact shall be construed to:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Abrogate or limit the applicability of any act of Congress or diminish or otherwise impair the jurisdiction of any federal agency expressly conferred thereon by the Congress.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Abrogate or limit the regulatory responsibility and authority of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of an agreement state under Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 in which a regional facility is located.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“(3) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Make inapplicable to any person or circumstance any other law of a party state which is not inconsistent with this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“(4) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Make unlawful the continued development and operation of any facility already licensed for development or operation on the date this compact becomes effective, except that any such facility shall comply with Article 3, Article 4, and Article 5 and shall be subject to any action lawfully taken pursuant thereto.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“(5) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Prohibit any storage or treatment of waste by the generator on its own premises.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“(6) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Affect any judicial or administrative proceeding pending on the effective date of this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“(7) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Alter the relations between, and the respective internal responsibilities of, the government of a party state and its subdivisions.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“(8) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Affect the generation, treatment, storage, or disposal of waste generated by the atomic energy defense activities of the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy or federal research and development activities as defined in Public Law 96–573.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">“(9) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Affect the rights and powers of any party state and its political subdivisions to regulate and license any facility within its borders or to affect the rights and powers of any party state and its political subdivisions to tax or impose fees on the waste managed at any facility within its borders.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“B. No party shall pass any law or adopt any regulation which is inconsistent with this compact. To do so may jeopardize the membership status of the party state.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“C. Upon formation of the compact no law or regulation of a party state or of any subdivision or instrumentality thereof may be applied so as to restrict or make more inconvenient access to any regional facility by the generators of another party state than for the generators of the state where the facility is situated.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“D. Restrictions of waste management of regional facilities pursuant to Article 4 shall be enforceable as a matter of state law.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e1050" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 7</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ELIGIBLE PARTIES; WITHDRAWAL; REVOCATION; ENTRY INTO FORCE; TERMINATION </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A. This compact shall have as initially eligible parties the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“B. Any state not expressly declared eligible to become a party state to this compact in Section (A) of this Article may petition the Commission, once constituted, to be declared eligible. The Commission may establish such conditions as it deems necessary and appropriate to be met by a state wishing to become eligible to become a party state to this compact pursuant to such provisions of this section. Upon satisfactorily meeting the conditions and upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Commission, including the affirmative vote of both representatives of a host state in which any affected regional facility is located, the petitioning state shall be eligible to become a party state to this compact and may become a party state in the manner as those states declared eligible in Section (a) of this Article.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“C. Each state eligible to become a party state to this compact shall be declared a party state upon enactment of this compact into law by the state and upon payment of the fees required by Article 4(H)(1). The Commission is the judge of the qualifications of the party states and of its members and of their compliance with the conditions and requirements of this compact and the laws of the party states relating to the enactment of this compact.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“D. 1. The first three states eligible to become party states to this compact which enact this compact into law and appropriate the fees required by Article 4(H)(1) shall immediately, upon the appointment of their Commission members, constitute themselves as the Southeast Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission; shall cause legislation to be introduced in Congress which grants the consent of Congress to this compact; and shall do those things necessary to organize the commission and implement the provisions of this compact.</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All succeeding states eligible to become party states to this compact shall be declared party states pursuant to the provisions of Section (C) of this Article.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The consent of Congress shall be required for the full implementation of this compact. The provisions of Article 5 Section (D) shall not become effective until the effective date of the import ban authorized by Article 4, Section (L) as approved by Congress. Congress may by law withdraw its consent only every five years.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“E. No state which holds membership in any other regional compact for the management of low-level radioactive waste may be considered by the Compact Commission for eligible state status or party state status.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“F. Any party state which fails to comply with the provisions of this compact or to fulfill the obligations incurred by becoming a party state to this compact may be subject to sanctions by the Commission, including suspension of its rights under this compact and revocation of its status as a party state. Any sanction shall be imposed only upon the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the Commission members. Revocation of party state status may take effect on the date of the meeting at which the Commission approves the resolution imposing such sanction, but in no event shall revocation take effect later than ninety days from the date of such meeting. Rights and obligations incurred by being declared a party state to this compact shall continue until the effective date of the sanction imposed or as provided in the resolution of the Commission imposing the sanction.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“The Commission must, as soon as practicable after the meeting at which a resolution revoking status as a party state is approved, provide written notice of the action, along with a copy of the resolution, to the Governors, the Presidents of the Senates, and the Speakers of the Houses of Representatives of the party states, as well as chairmen of the appropriate committees of Congress.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“G.<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID483B217AC1A84DF8A2E39CCB8B60BFF0" class="footnoteRef">1</ref> Any party state may withdraw from the compact by enacting a law repealing the compact; provided, that if a regional facility is located within such a state, such regional facility shall remain available to the region for four years after the date the Commission receives notification in writing from the governor of such party state of the rescission of the compact. The Commission, upon receipt of the notification, shall as soon as practicable provide copies of such notification to the Governors, the Presidents of the Senates, and the Speakers of the Houses of Representatives of the party states as well as the chairmen of the appropriate committees of Congress.</content><footnote id="ID483B217AC1A84DF8A2E39CCB8B60BFF0" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">1</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Section G, as set forth here, has been amended in its entirety. The consent of Congress was granted to the amendment in the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Amendments Consent Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101–171), which appears elsewhere in this compilation.</p></footnote> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“H.<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="IDC6E1D6E25B9645AC83BA08DE4A21FC5F" class="footnoteRef">2</ref> This compact may be terminated only by the affirmative action of Congress or by the rescission of all laws enacting the compact in each party state.<ref style="-uslm-dtd:footnote-ref" idref="ID90A554A6A2B0425188B5348C072B5EE9" class="footnoteRef">3</ref></content><footnote id="IDC6E1D6E25B9645AC83BA08DE4A21FC5F" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">2</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">Section H, as set forth here, has been amended in its entirety. The consent of Congress was granted to the amendment in the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Amendments Consent Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101–171), which appears elsewhere in this compilation.</p></footnote><footnote id="ID90A554A6A2B0425188B5348C072B5EE9" style="-uslm-dtd:footnote"><sup style="-uslm-dtd:superscript">3</sup><p style="-uslm-dtd:para; margin-left:1em">A new section I has been added. The consent of Congress was granted to the amendment in the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Amendments Consent Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101–171), which appears elsewhere in this compilation.</p></footnote><foreign id="warning-d2134372e1124" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 8</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“penalties </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A. Each party state, consistently with its own law, shall prescribe and enforce penalties against any person not an official of another state for violation of any provisions of this compact.</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“B. Each party state acknowledges that the receipt by a host state of waste packaged or transported in violation of applicable laws and regulations can result in the imposition of sanctions by the host state which may include suspension or revocation of the violator's right of access to the facility in the host state.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e1136" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article 9</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“severability and construction </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the Constitution of any participating state or of the United States, or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any other government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If any provision of this compact shall be held contrary to the Constitution of any State participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to give effect to the purposes thereof.”</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> </section></quotedContent>.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s224" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="224">SEC. 224. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CENTRAL MIDWEST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">In accordance with section 4(a)(2) of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 2021d(a)(2)), the consent of the Congress hereby is given to the States of Illinois and Kentucky to enter into the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact. Such compact is substantially as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE I. POLICY AND PURPOSE </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is created the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“The states party to this compact recognize that the Congress of the United States, by enacting the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 2021), has provided for and encouraged the development of low-level radioactive waste compacts as a tool for managing such waste. The party states also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most efficiently on a regional basis; and, that the safe and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste generated within the region requires that sufficient capacity to manage such waste be properly provided.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“a) It is the policy of the party states to enter into a regional low-level radioactive waste management compact for the purpose of:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) providing the instrument and the framework for a cooperative effort;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) providing sufficient facilities for the proper management of low-level radioactive waste generated in the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) protecting the health and safety of the citizens of the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) limiting the number of facilities required to manage low-level radioactive waste generated in the region effectively and efficiency;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“5) promoting the volume and source reduction of low-level radioactive waste generated in the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“6) distributing the costs, benefits and obligations of successful low-level radioactive waste management equitably among the party states and among generators and other persons who use regional facilities to manage their waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“7) ensuring the ecological and economical management of low-level radioactive waste, including the prohibition of shallow-land burial of waste; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“8) promoting the use of above-ground facilities and other disposal technologies providing greater and safer confinement of low-level radioactive waste than shallow-land burial facilities.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) Implicit in the Congressional consent to this compact is the expectation by the Congress and the party states that the appropriate federal agencies will actively assist the Compact Commission and the individual party states to this compact by:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) expeditious enforcement of federal rules, regulations and laws;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) imposition of sanctions against those found to be in violation of federal rules, regulations and laws; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) timely inspection of their licensees to determine their compliance with these rules, regulations and laws.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“a) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Commission</quotedText>’ means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Decommissioning</quotedText>’ means the measures taken at the end of a facility's operating life to assure the continued protection of the public from any residual radioactivity or other potential hazards present at a facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Disposal</quotedText>’ means the isolation of waste from the biosphere in a permanent facility designed for that purpose.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Eligible</quotedText>’ state means either the State of Illinois or the Commonwealth of Kentucky.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“e) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Extended care</quotedText>’ means the continued observation of a facility after closure for the purpose of detecting a need for maintenance, ensuring environmental safety, and determining compliance with applicable licensure and regulatory requirements and includes undertaking any action or clean-up necessary to protect public health and the environment from radioactive releases from a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“f) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Facility</quotedText>’ means a parcel of land or site, together with the structures, equipment and improvements on or appurtenant to the land or site, which is used or is being developed for the treatment, storage or disposal of low-level radioactive waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“g) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Generator</quotedText>’ means a person who produces or possesses low-level radioactive waste in the course of or incident to manufacturing, power generation, processing, medical diagnosis and treatment, research, or other industrial or commercial activity and who, to the extent required by law, is licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or a party state, to produce or possess such waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“h) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Host state</quotedText>’ means any party state that is designated by the Commission to host a regional facility, provided that a party state with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year that is less than 10 percent of the total volume recorded on such manifests for the region during the same year shall not be designated a host state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“i) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Institutional control</quotedText>’ means those activities carried out by the host state to physically control access to the disposal site following transfer of control of the disposal site from the disposal site operator to the state or federal government. These activities must include, but need not be limited to, environmental monitoring, periodic surveillance, minor custodial care, and other necessary activities at the site as determined by the host state, and administration of funds to cover the costs for these activities. The period of institutional control will be determined by the host state, but institutional control may not be relied upon for more than 100 years following transfer of control of the disposal site to the state or federal government.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“j) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Long-term liability</quotedText>’ means the financial obligation to compensate any person for medical and other expenses incurred from damages to human health, personal injuries suffered from damages to human health and damages or losses to real or personal property, and to provide for the costs for accomplishing any necessary corrective action or clean-up on real or personal property caused by radioactive releases from a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“k) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Low-level radioactive waste</quotedText>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">waste</quotedText>’ means radioactive waste not classified as (1) high-level radioactive waste, (2) transuranic waste, (3) spent nuclear fuel, or (4) by-product material as defined in Section 11e. (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. This definition shall apply notwithstanding any declaration by the federal government, a state or any regulatory agency that any radioactive material is exempt from any regulatory control.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“l) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Management plan</quotedText>’ means the plan adopted by the Commission for the storage, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“m) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Manifest</quotedText>’ means a shipping document identifying the generator of waste, the volume of waste, the quantity of radionuclides in the shipment, and such other information as may be required by the appropriate regulatory agency.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“n) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Party state</quotedText>’ means any eligible state which enacts the compact into law and pays the membership fee.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“o) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Person</quotedText>’ means any individual, corporation, business enterprise or other legal entity, either public or private, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of that individual, corporation, business enterprise, or legal entity.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“p) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Region</quotedText>’ means the geographical area of the party states.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“q) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Regional facility</quotedText>’ means any facility as defined in Article II(f) that is (1) located within the region, and (2) established by a party state pursuant to designation of that state as a host state by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“r) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Shallow-land burial</quotedText>’ means a land disposal facility in which radioactive waste is disposed of in or within the upper 30 meters of the earth's surface; however, this definition shall not include an enclosed, engineered, strongly structurally enforced and solidified bunker that extends below the earth's surface.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“s) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Site</quotedText>’ means the geographic location of a facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“t) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Source reduction</quotedText>’ means those administrative practices that reduce the radionuclide levels in low-level radioactive waste or that prevent the generation of additional low-level radioactive waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“u) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">State</quotedText>’ means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or any other territorial possession of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“v) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Storage</quotedText>’ means the temporary holding of waste for treatment or disposal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“w) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Treatment</quotedText>’ means any method, technique or process, including storage for radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or composition of any waste in order to render the waste safer for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible to another usable material or reduced in volume.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“x) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Volume reduction</quotedText>’ means those methods including, but not limited to, biological, chemical, mechanical and thermal methods used to reduce the amount of space that waste materials occupy and to put them into a form suitable for storage or disposal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“y) ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Waste management</quotedText>’ means the source and volume reduction, storage, transportation, treatment or disposal of waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE III. THE COMMISSION </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a) There is created the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. Upon the eligible states becoming party states, the Commission shall consist of two voting Commissioners from each state eligible to be designated a host state under Article VI(b), one voting Commissioner from any other party state, and for each regional facility, one non-voting Commissioner who is an elected official of local government and a resident of the county where that regional facility is located. The Governor of each party state shall notify the Commission in writing of its Commissioners and any alternates.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) Each voting Commissioner is entitled to one vote. No action of the Commission is binding unless a majority of the voting membership casts its vote in the affirmative. In addition, no agreement by the Commission under Article III(i)(1), Article III(i)(2), or Article III(i)(3) is valid unless all voting Commissioners from the party state in which the facility where waste would be sent is located cast their votes in the affirmative.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) The Commission shall elect annually from among its members a chairperson. The Commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, by-laws and policies that are not inconsistent with this compact, including procedures that conform with the provisions of the Federal Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. ss. 500 to 559) to the greatest extent practicable in regard to notice, conduct and recording of meetings; access by the public to records; provision of information to the public; conduct of adjudicatory hearings; and issuance of decisions.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) The Commission shall meet at least once annually and shall also meet upon the call of any voting Commissioner.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“e) All meetings of the Commission and its designated committees shall be open to the public with reasonable advance notice. The Commission may, by majority vote, close a meeting to the public for the purpose of considering sensitive personnel or legal strategy matters. However, all Commission actions and decisions shall be made in open meetings and appropriately recorded. A roll call may be required upon request of any voting Commissioner.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“f) The Commission may establish advisory committees for the purpose of advising the Commission on any matters pertaining to waste management, waste generation and source and volume reduction.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“g) The Office of the Commission shall be in Illinois. The Commission may appoint or contract for and compensate such staff necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The staff shall serve at the Commission's pleasure with the exception that staff hired as the result of securing federal funds shall be hired and governed under applicable federal statutes and regulations. In selecting any staff, the Commission shall assure that the staff has adequate experience and formal training to carry out the functions assigned to it by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“h) All files, records and data of the Commission shall be open to reasonable public inspection and may be copied upon payment of reasonable fees to be established where appropriate by the Commission, except for information privileged against introduction in judicial proceedings. Such fees may be waived or shall be reduced substantially for not-for-profit organizations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“i) The Commission may:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) Enter into an agreement with any person to allow waste from outside the region to be disposed of at facilities in the region. However, no such agreement shall be effective unless and until ratified by a law enacted by the party state to which the waste would be sent for disposal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) Enter into an agreement with any person to allow waste described in Article VII(a)(6) to be treated, stored, or disposed of at regional facilities. However, no such agreement shall be effective unless and until ratified by a law enacted by the host state of the regional facility to which the waste would be sent for treatment, storage, or disposal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) Enter into an agreement with any person to allow waste from outside the region to be treated or stored at facilities in the region. However, any such agreement shall be revoked as a matter of law if, within one year of the effective date of the agreement, a law is enacted ordering such revocation by the party state to which the waste would be sent for treatment or storage.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) Approve, or enter into an agreement with any person for, the export of waste from the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“5) Approve the disposal of waste generated within the region at a facility in the region other than a regional facility, subject to the limitations of Articles V(f) and VII(a)(6).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“6) Require that waste generated within the region be treated or stored at available regional facilities, subject to the limitations of Articles V(f), VII(a)(3) and VII(a)(6).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“7) Appear as an intervenor or party in interest before any court of law or any federal, state or local agency, board or commission in any matter related to waste management. In order to represent its views, the Commission may arrange for any expert testimony, reports, evidence or other participation.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“8) Review the emergency closure of a regional facility, determine the appropriateness of that closure, and take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that the interests of the region are protected, provided that a party state with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year that is less than 10 percent of the total volume recorded on such manifests for the region during the same year shall not be designated a host state or be required to store the region's waste. In determining the 10 percent exclusion, there shall not be included waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests by a person whose principal business is providing a service by arranging for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of such waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“9) Take any action which is appropriate and necessary to perform its duties and functions as provided in this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“10) Suspend the privileges or revoke the membership of a party state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“j) The Commission shall:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) Submit within 10 days of its execution to the governor and the appropriate officers of the legislative body of the party state in which any affected facility is located a copy of any agreement entered into by the Commission under Article III(i)(1), Article III(i)(2) or Article III(i)(3).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) Submit an annual report to, and otherwise communicate with, the governors and the appropriate officers of the legislative bodies of the party states regarding the activities of the Commission. The annual report shall include a description of the status of the activities taken pursuant to any agreement entered into by the Commission under Article III(i)(1), Article III(i)(2) or Article III(i)(3) and any violation of any provision thereof, and a description of the source, volume, activity, and current status of any waste from outside the region or waste described under Article VII(a)(6) that was treated, stored, or disposed of in the region in the previous year.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) Hear, negotiate, and, as necessary, resolve by final decision disputes which may arise between the party states regarding this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) Adopt and amend, as appropriate, a regional management plan that plans for the establishment of needed regional facilities.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“5) Adopt an annual budget.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“k) Funding of the budget of the Commission shall be provided as follows:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) Each state, upon becoming a party state, shall pay $50,000 to the Commission which shall be used for the administrative costs of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) Each state hosting a regional facility shall levy surcharges on each user of the regional facility based upon its portion of the total volume and characteristics of wastes managed at that facility. The surcharges collected at all regional facilities shall:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“A) be sufficient to cover the annual budget of the Commission; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease2"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“B) be paid to the Commission, provided, however, that each host state collecting surcharges may retain a portion of the collection sufficent to cover its administrative costs of collection.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“l) The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The Commission shall contract with an independent certified public accountant to annually audit all receipts and disbursements of Commission funds and to submit an audit report to the Commission. The audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the Commission required by this Article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“m) The Commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions and may utilize and dispose of any donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services from any state or the United States (or any subdivision or agency thereof), or interstate agency, or from any institution, person, firm or corporation. The nature, amount and condition, if any, attendant upon any donation or grant accepted or received by the Commission together with the identity of the donor, grantor, or lender, shall be detailed in the annual report of the Commission. The Commission shall establish guidelines for the acceptance of donations, grants, equipment, supplies, materials and services and shall review such guidelines annually.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“n) The Commission is not liable for any costs associated with any of the following:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) the licensing and construction of any facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) the operation of any facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) the stabilization and closure of any facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) the extended care of any facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“5) the institutional control, after extended care of any facility; or</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“6) the transportation of waste to any facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“o) The Commission is a legal entity separate and distinct from the party states and is liable for its actions as a separate and distinct legal entity. Commissioners are not personally liable for actions taken by them in their official capacity.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“p) Except as provided under Article III(n), Article III(o), Article VI(p) and Article VI(q), nothing in this compact alters liability for any action, omission, course of conduct or liability resulting from any causal or other relationships.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“q) Any person aggrieved by a final decision of the Commission, which adversely affects the legal rights, duties or privileges of such person, may petition a court of competent jurisdiction, within 60 days after the Commission's final decision, to obtain judicial review of said final decision.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE IV. REGIONAL MANAGEMENT PLAN </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall adopt a regional management plan designed to ensure the safe and efficient management of waste generated within the region. In adopting a regional waste management plan the Commission shall:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“a) Adopt procedures for determining, consistent with considerations of public health and safety, the type and number of regional facilities which are presently necessary and which are projected to be necessary to manage waste generated within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) Develop and adopt policies promoting source and volume reduction of waste generated within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) Develop alternative means for the treatment, storage and disposal of waste, other than shallow-land burial or underground injection well.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) Prepare a draft regional management plan that shall be made available in a convenient form to the public for comment. The Commission shall conduct one or more public hearings in each party state prior to the adoption of the regional management plan. The regional management plan shall include the Commission's response to public and party state comment.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE V. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF PARTY STATES </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a) Each party state shall act in good faith in the performance of acts and courses of conduct which are intended to ensure the provision of facilities for regional availability and usage in a manner consistent with this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) Other than the provisions of Article V(f) and VII(a)(6), each party state has the right to have all wastes generated within borders managed at regional facilities. This right shall be subject to the provisions of this Compact. All party states have an equal right of access to any facility outside the region made available to the region by any agreement entered into by the Commission pursuant to Article III(i)(4).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) Party states or generators may negotiate for the right of access to a facility outside the region and may export waste outside the region subject to Commission approval under Article III(i)(4).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) To the extent permitted by federal law, each party state may enforce any applicable federal and state laws, regulations and rules pertaining to the packaging and transportation of waste generated within or passing through its borders. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require a party state to enter into any agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“e) Each party state shall provide to the Commission any data and information the Commission requires to implement its responsibilities. Each party state shall establish the capability to obtain any data and information required by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“f) Waste originating from the Maxey Flats nuclear waste disposal site in Fleming County, Kentucky shall not be shipped to any facility in Illinois for storage, treatment or disposal. Disposition of these wastes shall be the sole responsibility of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and such waste shall not be subject to the provisions of Articles IX(b)(3) and (4) of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE VI. DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF FACILITIES </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a) Any party state may volunteer to become a host state, and the Commission may designate that state as a host state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) If all regional facilities required by the regional management plan are not developed pursuant to Article VI(a), or upon notification that an existing regional facility will be closed, the Commission may designate a party state as a host state. A party state shall not be designated as a host state for any regional facility under this Article VI(b) unless that state's total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year is more than 10% of the total volume recorded on such manifests for the region during the same year. In determining the 10% exclusion, there shall not be included waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests by a person whose principal business is providing a service by arranging for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of such waste, or waste described in Article VII(a)(6).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) Each party state designated as a host state is responsible for determining possible facility locations within its borders. The selection of a facility site shall not conflict with applicable federal and host state laws, regulations and rules not inconsistent with this compact and shall be based on factors including, but not limited to, geological, environmental, engineering and economic viability of possible facility locations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) Any party state designated as a host state may request the Commission to relieve that state of the responsibility to serve as a host state. The Commission may relieve a party state of this responsibility upon a showing by the requesting party state that no feasible potential regional facility site of the type it is designated to host exists within its borders or for other good cause shown and consistent with the purposes of this Compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“e) After a state is designated a host state by the Commission, it is responsible for the timely development and operation of a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“f) To the extent permitted by federal and state law, a host state shall regulate and license any facility within its borders and ensure the extended care of that facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“g) The Commission may designate a party state as a host state while a regional facility is in operation if the Commission determines that an additional regional facility is or may be required to meet the needs of the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“h) Designation of a host state is for a period of 20 years or the life of the regional facility which is established under that designation, whichever is shorter. Upon request of a host state, the Commission may modify the period of its designation.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“i) A host state may establish a fee system for any regional facility within its borders. The fee system shall be reasonable and equitable. This fee system shall provide the host state with sufficient revenue to cover any costs including, but not limited to, the planning, siting, licensure, operation, pre-closure corrective action or clean-up, monitoring, inspection, decommissioning, extended care and long-term liability, associated with such facilities. This fee system may provide for payment to units of local government affected by a regional facility for costs incurred in connection with such facility. This fee system may also include reasonable revenue beyond the costs incurred for the host state, subject to approval by the Commission. The fee system shall include incentives for source or volume reduction and may be based on the hazard of the waste. A host state shall submit an annual financial audit of the operation of the regional facility to the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“j) A host state shall ensure that a regional facility located within its borders which is permanently closed is properly decommissioned. A host state shall also provide for the extended care of a closed or decommissioned regional facility within its borders so that the public health and safety of the state and region are ensured, unless, pursuant to the federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the federal government has assumed title and custody of the regional facility and the federal government thereby has assumed responsibility to provide for the extended care of such facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“k) A host state intending to close a regional facility located within its borders shall notify the Commission in writing of its intention and the reasons. Notification shall be given to the Commission at least five years prior to the intended date of closure. This Section shall not prevent an emergency closing of a regional facility by a host state to protect its air, land and water resources and the health and safety of its citizens. However, a host state which has an emergency closing of a regional facility shall notify the Commission in writing within 3 working days of its action and shall, within 30 working days of its action, demonstrate justification for the closing.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“l) If a regional facility closes before an additional or new facility becomes operational, waste generated within the region may be shipped temporarily to any location agreed on by the Commission until a regional facility is operational, provided that the region's waste shall not be stored in a party state with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year which is less than 10% of the total volume recorded on the manifests for the region during the same year. In determining the 10% exclusion, there shall not be included waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests by a person whose principal business is providing a service by arranging for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of such waste, or waste described in Article VII(a)(6).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“m) A party state which is designated as a host state by the Commission and fails to fulfill its obligations as a host state may have its privileges under the compact suspended or membership in the compact revoked by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“n) The host state shall create an ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Extended Care and Long-Term Liability Fund</quotedText>’ and shall allocate sufficient fee revenues, received pursuant to Article VI(i), to provide for the costs of:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) decommissioning and other procedures required for the proper closure of a regional facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) monitoring, inspection and other procedures required for the proper extended care of a regional facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) undertaking any corrective action or clean-up necessary to protect human health and the environment from radioactive releases from a regional facility; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) compensating any person for medical and other expenses incurred from damages to human health, personal injuries suffered from damages to human health and damages or losses to real or personal property, and accomplishing any necessary corrective action or clean-up on real or personal property caused by radioactive releases from a regional facility; the host state may allocate monies in this Fund in amounts as it deems appropriate to purchase insurance or to make other similar financial protection arrangements consistent with the purposes of this Fund; this Article VI(n) shall in no manner limit the financial responsibilities of the site operator under Article VI(o), the party states under Article VI(p), or any person who sends waste to a regional facility, under Article VI(q).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“o) The operator of a regional facility shall purchase an amount of property and third-party liability insurance deemed appropriate by the host state, pay the necessary periodic premiums at all times and make periodic payments to the Extended Care and Long-Term Liability Fund as set forth in Article VI(n) for such amounts as the host state reasonably determines is necessary to provide for future premiums to continue such insurance coverage, in order to pay the costs of compensating any person for medical and other expenses incurred from damages to human health, personal injuries suffered from damages to human health and damages or losses to real or personal property, and accomplishing any necessary corrective action or clean-up on real or personal property caused by radioactive releases from a regional facility. In the event of such costs resulting from radioactive releases from a regional facility, the host state should, to the maximum extent possible, seek to obtain monies from such insurance prior to using monies from the Extended Care and Long-Term Liability Fund.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“p) All party states shall be liable for the cost of extended care and long-term liability in excess of monies available from the Extended Care and Long-Term Liability Fund, as set forth in Article VI(n) and from the property and third-party liability insurance as set forth in Article VI(o). A party state may meet such liability for costs by levying surcharges upon generators located in the party state. The extent of such liability shall be based on the proportionate share of the total volume of waste placed in the regional facility by generators located in each such party state. Such liability shall be joint and several among the party states with a right of contribution between the party states. However, this Section shall not apply to a party state with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year that is less than 10% of the total volume recorded on such manifests for the region during the same year.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“q) Any person who sends waste from outside the region or waste described in Article VII(a)(6) for treatment, storage or disposal at a regional facility shall be liable for the cost of extended care and long-term liability of that regional facility in excess of the monies available from the Extended Care and Long-Term Liability Fund as set forth in Article VI(n) and from the property and third-party liability insurance as set forth in Article VI(o). The extent of the liability for the person shall be based on the proportionate share of the total volume of waste sent by that person to the regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE VII. OTHER LAWS AND REGULATIONS </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a) Nothing in this compact:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) abrogates or limits the applicability of any act of Congress or diminishes or otherwise impairs the jurisdiction of any federal agency expressly conferred thereon by the Congress;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) prevents the enforcement of any other law of a party state which is not inconsistent with this compact;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) prohibits any storage or treatment of waste by the generator on its own premises;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) affects any administrative or judicial proceeding pending on the effective date of this compact;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“5) alters the relations between the respective internal responsibility of the government of a party state and its subdivisions;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“6) establishes any right to the treatment, storage or disposal at any facility in the region or provides any authority to prohibit export from the region of waste that is owned or generated by the United States Department of Energy, owned or generated by the United States Navy as a result of the decommissioning of vessels of the United States Navy, or owned or generated as the result of any research, development, testing or production of any atomic weapon; or</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“7) affects the rights and powers of any party state or its political subdivisions, to the extent not inconsistent with this compact, to regulate and license any facility or the transportation of waste within its borders or affects the rights and powers of any state or its political subdivisions to tax or impose fees on the waste managed at any facility within its borders;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“8) requires a party state to enter into any agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; or</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“9) alters or limits liability of transporters of waste and owners and operators of sites for their acts, omissions, conduct or relationships in accordance with applicable laws.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) For purposes of this compact, all state laws or parts of laws in conflict with this compact are hereby superseded to the extent of the conflict.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) No law, rule, regulation, fee or surcharge of a party state, or of any of its subdivisions or instrumentalities, may be applied in a manner which discriminates against the generators of another party state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) No person who provides a service by arranging for collection, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of waste from outside the region shall be allowed to dispose of any waste, regardless of origin, in the region unless specifically permitted under an agreement entered into by the Commission in accordance with the requirements of Article III(i)(1).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE VIII. ELIGIBLE PARTIES, WITHDRAWAL, REVOCATION, ENTRY INTO FORCE, TERMINATION </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a) Eligible parties to this compact are the State of Illinois and Commonwealth of Kentucky. Eligibility terminates on April 15, 1985.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) An eligible state becomes a party state when the state enacts the compact into law and pays the membership fee required in Article III(k)(1).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) The Commission is formed upon the appointment of the Commissioners and the tender of the membership fee payable to the Commission by the eligible states. The Governor of Illinois shall convene the initial meeting of the Commission. The Commission shall cause legislation to be introduced in the Congress which grants the consent of the Congress to this compact, and shall take action necessary to organize the Commission and implement the provisions of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) Other than the special circumstances for withdrawal in Section (f) of this Article, either party state may withdraw from this compact at any time by repealing the authorizing legislation, but no withdrawal may take effect until 5 years after the governor of the withdrawing state gives notice in writing of the withdrawal to the Commission and to the governor of the other state. Withdrawal does not affect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a party state prior to the time of such withdrawal. Any host state which grants a disposal permit for waste generated in a withdrawing state shall void the permit when the withdrawal of that state is effective.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“e) This compact becomes effective July 1, 1984, or at any date subsequent to July 1, 1984, upon enactment by the eligible states. However, Article IX(b) shall not take effect until the Congress has by law consented to this compact. The Congress shall have an opportunity to withdraw such consent every 5 years. Failure of the Congress affirmatively to withdraw its consent has the effect of renewing consent for an additional 5 year period. The consent given to this compact by the Congress shall extend to the power of the region to ban the shipment of waste into the region pursuant to Article III(i)(1) and to prohibit exportation of waste generated within the region under Article III(i)(4).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“f) A state which has been designated a host state may withdraw from the compact. The option to withdraw must be exercised within 90 days of the date the governor of the designated state receives written notice of the designation. Withdrawal becomes effective immediately after notice is given in the following manner. The governor of the withdrawing state shall give notice in writing to the Commission and to the governor of each party state. A state which withdraws from the compact under this Section forfeits any funds already paid pursuant to this compact. A designated host state which withdraws from the compact after 90 days and prior to fulfilling its obligations shall be assessed a sum the Commission determines to be necessary to cover the costs borne by the Commission and remaining party states as a result of that withdrawal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE IX. PENALTIES </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a) Each party state shall prescribe and enforce penalties against any person who is not an official of another state for violation of any provision of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“b) Unless authorized by the Commission pursuant to Article III(i), or otherwise provided in this compact, after January 1, 1986 it is a violation of this compact:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“1) for any person to deposit at a facility in the region waste from outside the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“2) for any facility in the region to accept waste from outside the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“3) for any person to export from the region waste that is generated within the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“4) for any person to dispose of waste at a facility other than a regional facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“5) for any person to deposit at a regional facility waste described in Article VII(a)(6); or</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“6) for any regional facility to accept waste described in Article VII(a)(6).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“c) It is a violation of this compact for any person to treat or store waste at a facility other than a regional facility if such treatment or storage is prohibited by the Commission under Article III(i)(6).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“d) Each party state acknowledges that the receipt by a host state of waste packaged or transported in violation of applicable laws, rules or regulations may result in the imposition of sanctions by the host state which may include suspension or revocation of the violator's right of access to the facility in the host state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“e) Each party state has the right to seek legal recourse against any party state which acts in violation of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE X. SEVERABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the Constitution of any participating state or the United States, or if the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If any provision of this compact shall be held contrary to the Constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.”</content> </subsection> </section></quotedContent>.</content><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t42/s2021d">42 U.S.C. 2021d note</ref>.<b>]</b> </editorialNote> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s225" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="225">SEC. 225. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">MIDWEST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">The consent of Congress is hereby given to the States of Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin to enter into the Midwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste Management. Such compact is as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE I. POLICY AND PURPOSE </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is created the Midwest Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact.</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“The states party to this compact recognize that the Congress of the United States, by enacting the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 2021b to 2021d), has provided for and encouraged the development of low-level radioactive waste compacts as a tool for managing such waste. The party states acknowledge that the Congress has declared that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of certain defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. The party states also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most efficiently on a regional basis; and, that the safe and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste generated within the region requires that sufficient capacity to manage such waste be properly provided.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the policy of the party states to enter into a regional low-level radioactive waste management compact for the purpose of:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Providing the instrument and framework for a cooperative effort;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Providing sufficient facilities for the proper management of low-level radioactive waste generated in the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Protecting the health and safety of the citizens of the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Limiting the number of facilities required to effectively and efficiently manage low-level radioactive waste generated in the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Encouraging the reduction of the amounts of low-level radioactive waste generated in the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Distributing the costs, benefits and obligations of successful low-level radioactive waste management equitably among the party states, and among generators and other persons who use regional facilities to manage their waste; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensuring the ecological and economical management of low-level radioactive wastes.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Implicit in the Congressional consent to this compact is the expectation by the Congress and the party states that the appropriate federal agencies will actively assist the Compact Commission and the individual party states to this compact by:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Expeditious enforcement of federal rules, regulations and laws;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Imposition of sanctions against those found to be in violation of federal rules, regulations and laws; and</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Timely inspection of their licensees to determine their compliance with these rules, regulations and laws.</chapeau> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:</content> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Care</term>’ means the continued observation of a facility after closure for the purposes of detecting a need for maintenance, ensuring environmental safety, and determining compliance with applicable licensure and regulatory requirements and including the correction of problems which are detected as a result of that observation.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Commission</term>’ means the Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Decommissioning</term>’ means the measures taken at the end of a facility's operating life to assure the continued protection of the public from any residual radioactivity or other potential hazards present at a facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Disposal</term>’ means the isolation of waste from the biosphere in a permanent facility designed for that purpose.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Eligible state</term>’ means a state qualified to be a party state to this compact as provided in Article VIII.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Facility</term>’ means a parcel of land or site, together with the structures, equipment and improvements on or appurtenant to the land or site, which is used or is being developed for the treatment, storage or disposal of low-level radioactive waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Generator</term>’ means any person who produces or possesses low-level radioactive waste in the course of or incident to manufacturing, power generation, processing, medical diagnosis and treatment, research, or other industrial or commercial activity and who, to the extent required by law, is licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or a party state, to produce or possess such waste. Generator does not include a person who provides a service by arranging for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of wastes generated outside the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Host state</term>’ means any state which is designated by the Commission to host a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Low-level radioactive waste</term>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">waste</quotedText>’ means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel or by-product material as defined in Section 11(e)(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2014).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Management plan</term>’ means the plan adopted by the Commission for the storage, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Party state</term>’ means any eligible state which enacts the compact into law.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Person</term>’ means any individual, corporation, business enterprise or other legal entity either public or private and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of that individual, corporation, business enterprise, or legal entity.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Region</term>’ means the area of the party states.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">“n. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Regional facility</term>’ means a facility which is located within the region and which is established by a party state pursuant to designation of that state as a host state by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">“o. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Site</term>’ means the geographic location of a facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="p">“p. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">State</term>’ means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or any other territorial possession of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="q">“q. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Storage</term>’ means the temporary holding of waste for treatment or disposal.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="r">“r. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Treatment</term>’ means any method, technique or process, including storage for radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or composition of any waste in order to render the waste safer for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible to another usable material, or reduced in volume.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="s">“s. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Waste management</term>’ means the storage, transportation, treatment, or disposal of waste.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e1995" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>ARTICLE III. THE COMMISSION</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby created the Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. The Commission consists of one voting member from each party state. The Governor of each party state shall notify the Commission in writing of its member and any alternates. An alternate may act on behalf of the member only in that member's absence. The method for selection and the expenses of each Commission member shall be the responsibility of the member's respective state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each Commission member is entitled to one vote. No action of the Commission is binding unless a majority of the total membership cast their vote in the affirmative.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall elect annually from among its members a chairperson. The Commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, bylaws, and policies which are not inconsistent with this compact, including procedures which substantially conform with the provisions of federal law on administrative procedure compiled at 5 U.S.C. 500 to 559 in regard to notice, conduct and recording of meetings; access by the public to records; provision of information to the public; conduct of adjudicatory hearings; and issuance of decisions.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall meet at least once annually and shall also meet upon the call of the chairperson or a Commission member.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All meetings of the Commission shall be open to the public with reasonable advance notice. The Commission may, by majority vote, close a meeting to the public for the purpose of considering sensitive personnel or legal strategy matters. However, all Commission actions and decisions shall be made in open meetings and appropriately recorded.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may establish advisory committees for the purpose of advising the Commission on any matters pertaining to waste management.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The office of the Commission shall be in a party state. The Commission may appoint or contract for and compensate such limited staff necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The staff shall serve at the Commission's pleasure with the exception that staff hired as the result of securing federal funds shall be hired and governed under applicable federal statutes and regulations. In selecting any staff, the Commission shall assure that the staff has adequate experience and formal training to carry out the functions assigned to it by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Enter into an agreement with any person, state, or group of states for the right to use regional facilities for waste generated outside of the region and for the right to use facilities outside the region for waste generated within the region. The right of any person to use a regional facility for waste generated outside of the region requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the Commission, including the affirmative vote of the member of the host state in which any affected regional facility is located.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Approve the disposal of waste generated within the region at a facility other than a regional facility.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Appear as an intervenor or party in interest before any court of law or any federal, state or local agency, board or commission in any matter related to waste management. In order to represent its views, the Commission may arrange for any expert testimony, reports, evidence or other participation.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Review the emergency closure of a regional facility, determine the appropriateness of that closure, and take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that the interests of the region are protected.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Take any action which is appropriate and necessary to perform its duties and functions as provided in this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Suspend the privileges or revoke the membership of a party state by a two-thirds vote of the membership in accordance with Article VIII.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Receive and act on the petition of a nonparty state to become an eligible state.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Submit an annual report to, and otherwise communicate with, the governors and the appropriate officers of the legislative bodies of the party states regarding the activities of the Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Hear, negotiate, and, as necessary, resolve by final decision disputes which may arise between the party states regarding this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Adopt and amend, by a two-thirds vote of the membership, in accordance with the procedures and criteria developed pursuant to Article IV, a regional management plan which designates host states for the establishment of needed regional facilities.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Adopt an annual budget.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Funding of the budget of the Commission shall be provided as follows:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each state, upon becoming a party state, shall pay $50,000 or $1,000 per cubic meter of waste shipped from that state in 1980, whichever is lower, to the Commission which shall be used for the administrative costs of the Commission;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each state hosting a regional facility shall levy surcharges on all users of the regional facility based upon its portion of the total volume and characteristics of wastes managed at that facility. The surcharges collected at all regional facilities shall:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Be sufficient to cover the annual budget of the Commission; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Represent the financial commitments of all party states to the Commission; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Be paid to the Commission, provided, however, that each host state collecting surcharges may retain a portion of the collection sufficient to cover its administrative costs of collection, and that the remainder be sufficient only to cover the approved annual budget of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The Commission shall contract with an independent certified public accountant to annually audit all receipts and disbursements of Commission funds, and to submit an audit report to the Commission. The audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the Commission required by this Article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions and may utilize and dispose of any donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services from any state or the United States (or any subdivision or agency thereof), or interstate agency, or from any institution, person, firm or corporation. The nature, amount and condition, if any, attendant upon any donation or grant accepted or received by the Commission together with the identity of the donor, grantor or lender, shall be detailed in the annual report of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission is not liable for any costs associated with any of the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The licensing and construction of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The operation of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The stabilization and closure of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The care of any facility,</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The extended institutional control, after care of any facility, or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The transportation of waste to any facility.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">“n.</num><paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="inline"><num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission is a legal entity separate and distinct from the party states and is liable for its actions as a separate and distinct legal entity. Liabilities of the Commission are not liabilities of the party states. Members of the Commission are not personally liable for actions taken by them in their official capacity.</content></paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided under sections m. and n.1. of this article, nothing in this compact alters liability for any act, omission, course of conduct or liability resulting from any causal or other relationships.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">“o. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any person aggrieved by a final decision of the Commission may obtain judicial review of such decision in any court of competent jurisdiction by filing in such court a petition for review within 60 days after the Commission's final decision.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE IV. REGIONAL MANAGEMENT PLAN </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall adopt a regional management plan designed to ensure the safe and efficient management of waste generated within the region. In adopting a regional waste management plan the Commission shall:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Adopt procedures for determining, consistent with considerations for public health and safety, the type and number of regional facilities which are presently necessary and which are projected to be necessary to manage waste generated within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Develop and consider policies promoting source reduction of waste generated within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Develop and adopt procedures and criteria for identifying a party state as a host state for a regional facility. In developing these criteria, the Commission shall consider all the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the party states.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The existence of regional facilities within each party state.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The minimization of waste transportation.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The volumes and types of wastes generated within each party state.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The environmental, economic, and ecological impacts on the air, land and water resources of the party states.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Conduct such hearings, and obtain such reports, studies, evidence and testimony required by its approved procedures prior to identifying a party state as a host state for a needed regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Prepare a draft management plan, including procedures, criteria and host states, including alternatives, which shall be made available in a convenient form to the public for comment. Upon the request of a party state, the Commission shall conduct a public hearing in that state prior to the adoption of the management plan. The management plan shall include the Commission's response to public and party state comment.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e2199" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>ARTICLE V. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF PARTY STATES</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall act in good faith in the performance of acts and courses of conduct which are intended to ensure the provision of facilities for regional availability and usage in a manner consistent with this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state has the right to have all wastes generated within its borders managed at regional facilities subject to the provisions contained in Article IX.c. All party states have an equal right of access to any facility made available to the region by any agreement entered into by the Commission pursuant to Article III.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Party states or generators may negotiate for the right of access to a facility outside the region and may export waste outside the region subject to Commission approval under Article III.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent permitted by federal law, each party state may enforce any applicable federal and state laws, regulations and rules pertaining to the packaging and transportation of waste generated within or passing through its borders. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a party state to enter into any agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall provide to the Commission any data and information the Commission requires to implement its responsibilities. Each party state shall establish the capability to obtain any data and information required by the Commission.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e2221" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>ARTICLE VI. DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION AND FACILITIES</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state may volunteer to become a host state, and the Commission may designate that state as a host state upon a two-thirds vote of its members.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If all regional facilities required by the regional management plan are not developed pursuant to section a., or upon notification that an existing regional facility will be closed, the Commission may designate a host state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state designated as a host state is responsible for determining possible facility locations within its borders. The selection of a facility site shall not conflict with applicable federal and host state laws, regulations and rules not inconsistent with this compact and shall be based on factors including, but not limited to, geological, environmental and economic viability of possible facility locations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state designated as a host state may request the Commission to relieve that state of the responsibility to serve as a host state. The Commission may relieve a party state of this responsibility only upon a showing by the requesting party state that no feasible potential regional facility site of the type it is designated to host exists within its borders.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After a state is designated a host state by the Commission, it is responsible for the timely development and operation of a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent permitted by federal and state law, a host state shall regulate and license any facility within its borders and ensure the extended care of that facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may designate a party state as a host state while a regional facility is in operation if the Commission determines that an additional regional facility is or may be required to meet the needs of the region. The Commission shall make this designation following the procedures established under Article IV.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Designation of a host state is for a period of 20 years or the life of the regional facility which is established under that designation, whichever is longer. Upon request of a host state, the Commission may modify the period of its designation.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state may establish a fee system for any regional facility within its borders. The fee system shall be reasonable and equitable. This fee system shall provide the host state with sufficient revenue to cover any cost, including but not limited to the planning, siting, licensure, operation, decommissioning, extended care and long-term liability, associated with such facilities. This fee system may also include reasonable revenue beyond costs incurred for the host state, subject to approval by the Commission. A host state shall submit an annual financial audit of the operation of the regional facility to the Commission. The fee system may include incentives for source reduction and may be based on the hazard of the waste as well as the volume.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state shall ensure that a regional facility located within its borders which is permanently closed is properly decommissioned. A host state shall also provide for the care of a closed or decommissioned regional facility within its borders so that the public health and safety of the state and region are ensured.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state intending to close a regional facility located within its borders shall notify the Commission in writing of its intention and the reasons. Notification shall be given to the Commission at least five years prior to the intended date of closure. This section shall not prevent an emergency closing of a regional facility by a host state to protect its air, land and water resources and the health and safety of its citizens. However, a host state which has an emergency closing of a regional facility shall notify the Commission in writing within three working days of its action and shall, within 30 working days of its action, demonstrate justification for the closing.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If a regional facility closes before an additional or new facility becomes operational, waste generated within the region may be shipped temporarily to any location agreed on by the Commission until a regional facility is operational.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A party state which is designated as a host state by the Commission and fails to fulfill its obligations as a host state may have its privileges under the compact suspended or membership in the compact revoked by the Commission.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e2276" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>ARTICLE VII. OTHER LAWS AND REGULATIONS</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this compact:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Abrogates or limits the applicability of any act of Congress or diminishes or otherwise impairs the jurisdiction of any federal agency expressly conferred thereon by the Congress;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Prevents the enforcement of any other law of a party state which is not inconsistent with this compact;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Prohibits any storage or treatment of waste by the generator on its own premises;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Affects any administrative or judicial proceeding pending on the effective date of this compact;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Alters the relations between and the respective internal responsibility of the government of a party state and its subdivisions;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Affects the generation, treatment, storage or disposal of waste generated by the atomic energy defense activities of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy or successor agencies or federal research and development activities as described in section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2051); or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Affects the rights and powers of any party state or its political subdivisions to the extent not inconsistent with this compact, to regulate and license any facility or the transportation of waste within its borders or affects the rights and powers of any party state and its political subdivisions to tax or impose fees on the waste managed at any facility within its borders.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“8. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Requires a party state to enter into any agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">“9. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Alters or limits liability of transporters of waste, owners and operators of sites for their acts, omissions, conduct or relationships in accordance with applicable laws.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For purposes of this compact, all state laws or parts of laws in conflict with this compact are hereby superseded to the extent of the conflict.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No law, rule or regulation of a party state or of any of its subdivisions or instrumentalities may be applied in a manner which discriminates against the generators of another party state.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e2327" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>ARTICLE VIII. ELIGIBLE PARTIES, WITHDRAWAL, REVOCATION, ENTRY INTO FORCE, TERMINATION</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Eligible parties to this compact are the states of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin. Eligibility terminates on July 1, 1984.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any state not eligible for membership in the compact may petition the Commission for eligibility. The Commission may establish appropriate eligibility requirements. These requirements may include but are not limited to, an eligibility fee or designation as a host state. A petitioning state becomes eligible for membership in the compact upon the approval of the Commission, including the affirmative vote of all host states. Any state becoming eligible upon the approval of the Commission becomes a member of the compact in the same manner as any state eligible for membership at the time this compact enters into force.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An eligible state becomes a party state when the state enacts the compact into law and pays the membership fee required in Article III.j.1.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission is formed upon the appointment of Commission members and the tender of the membership fee payable to the Commission by three party states. The Governor of the first state to enact this compact shall convene the initial meeting of the Commission. The Commission shall cause legislation to be introduced in the Congress which grants the consent of the Congress to this compact, and shall take action necessary to organize the Commission and implement the provision of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state may withdraw from this compact by repealing the authorizing legislation but no withdrawal may take effect until five years after the governor of the withdrawing state gives notice in writing of the withdrawal to the Commission and to the governor of each party state. Withdrawal does not affect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a party state prior to the time of such withdrawal. Any host state which grants a disposal permit for waste generated in a withdrawing state shall void the permit when the withdrawal of that state is effective.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state which fails to comply with the terms of this compact or fails to fulfill its obligations may have its privileges suspended or its membership in the compact revoked by the Commission in accordance with Article III.h.6. Revocation takes effect one year from the date the affected party state receives written notice from the Commission of its action. All legal rights of the affected party state established under this compact cease upon the effective date of revocation but any legal obligations of that party state arising prior to revocation continue until they are fulfilled. The chairperson of the Commission shall transmit written notice of a revocation of a party state's membership in the compact immediately following the vote of the Commission to the governor of the affected party state, all other governors of the party states and the Congress of the United States.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This compact becomes effective upon enactment by at least three eligible states and consent to this compact by Congress. The Congress shall have an opportunity to withdraw such consent every five years. Failure of the Congress to affirmatively withdraw its consent has the effect of renewing consent for an additional five year period. The consent given to this compact by the Congress shall extend to any future admittance of new party states under sections b. and c. of this article and to the power of the Commission to ban the shipment of waste from the region pursuant to Article III.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The withdrawal of a party state from this compact under section e. of this article or the suspension or revocation of a state's membership in this compact under section f. of this article does not affect the applicability of this compact to the remaining party states.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A state which has been designated by the Commission to be a host state has 90 days from receipt by the Governor of written notice of designation to withdraw from the compact without any right to receive refund of any funds already paid pursuant to this compact, and without any further payment. Withdrawal becomes effective immediately upon notice as provided in section e. of this article. A designated host state which withdraws from the compact after 90 days and prior to fulfilling its obligations shall be assessed a sum the Commission determines to be necessary to cover the costs borne by the Commission and remaining party states as a result of that withdrawal.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e2366" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>ARTICLE IX. PENALTIES</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall prescribe and enforce penalties against any person who is not an official of another state for violation of any provision of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Unless otherwise authorized by the Commission pursuant to Article III.h. after January 1, 1986, it is a violation of this compact:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For any person to deposit at a regional facility waste not generated within the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For any regional facility to accept waste not generated within the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For any person to export from the region waste which is generated within the region; or</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">For any person to dispose of waste at a facility other than a regional facility.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state acknowledges that the receipt by a host state of waste packaged or transported in violation of applicable laws, rules and regulations may result in the imposition of sanctions by the host state which may include suspension or revocation of the violator's right of access to the facility in the host state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state has the right to seek legal recourse against any party state which acts in violation of this compact.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“ARTICLE X. SEVERABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the Constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If any provision of this compact shall be held contrary to the Constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.”</content> </paragraph> </subsection> </section></quotedContent>.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s226" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="226">SEC. 226. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT. </heading> <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">In accordance with section 4(a)(2) of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 2021d(a)(2)), the consent of the Congress hereby is given to the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming to enter into the Rocky Mountain Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact. Such compact is substantially as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"><p style="-uslm-dtd:para" class="centered"><inline class="small-caps" style="-uslm-dtd:smallcaps">ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT</inline></p> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article I. Findings and Purpose </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The party states agree that each state is responsible for providing for the management of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. Moreover, the party states find that the United States Congress, by enacting the ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act</quotedText>’ (P. L. 96–573), has encouraged the use of interstate compacts to provide for the establishment and operation of facilities for regional management of low-level radioactive waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">It is the purpose of the party states, by entering into an interstate compact, to establish the means for cooperative effort in managing low-level radioactive waste; to ensure the availability and economic viability of sufficient facilities for the proper and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste generated within the region while preventing unnecessary and uneconomic proliferation of such facilities; to encourage reduction of the volume of low-level radioactive waste requiring disposal within the region; to restrict management within the region of low-level radioactive waste generated outside the region; to distribute the costs, benefits and obligations of low-level radioactive waste management equitably among the party states; and by these means to promote the health, safety and welfare of the residents within the region.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article II. Definitions </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Board</term>’ means the Rocky Mountain low-level radioactive waste board;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Carrier</term>’ means a person who transports low-level waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Disposal</term>’ means the isolation of waste from the biosphere, with no intention of retrieval, such as by land burial;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Facility</term>’ means any property, equipment or structure used or to be used for the management of low-level waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Generate</term>’ means to produce low-level waste;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Host state</term>’ means a party state in which a regional facility is located or being developed;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“(g) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Low-level waste</term>’ or ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">waste</quotedText>’ means radioactive waste other than:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">High-level waste such as irradiated reactor fuel, liquid waste from reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel, or solids into which any such liquid waste has been converted;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels greater than ten (10) nanocuries per gram of waste material;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">“(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">By-product material as defined in Section 11e.(2) of the ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Atomic Energy Act of 1954,</quotedText>’ as amended November 8, 1978; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="v">“(v) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Wastes from mining, milling, smelting or similar processing of ores and mineral-bearing material primarily for minerals other than radium.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Management</term>’ means collection, consolidation, storage, treatment, incineration or disposal;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Operator</term>’ means a person who operates a regional facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Person</term>’ means an individual, corporation, partnership or other legal entity, whether public or private;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Region</term>’ means the combined geographic area within the boundaries of the party states; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“(l) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">Regional facility</term>’ means a facility within any party state which either:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">has been approved as a regional facility by the board; or</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">is the low-level waste facility in existence on January 1, 1982, at Beatty, Nevada.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article III. Rights, Responsibilities, and Obligations </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be regional facilities sufficient to manage the low-level waste generated within the region. At least one (1) regional facility shall be open and operating in a party state other than Nevada within six (6) years after this compact becomes law in Nevada and in one (1) other state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Low-level waste generated within the region shall be managed at regional facilities without discrimination among the party states; provided, however, that a host state may close a regional facility when necessary for public health or safety.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state which, according to reasonable projections made by the board, is expected to generate twenty percent (20%) or more in cubic feet except as otherwise determined by the board of the low-level waste generated within the region has an obligation to become a host state in compliance with subsection (d) of this article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“(d) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state, or a party state seeking to fulfill its obligation to become a host state, shall:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Cause a regional facility to be developed on a timely basis as determined by the board, and secure the approval of such regional facility by the board as provided in Article IV before allowing site preparation or physical construction to begin;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Ensure by its own law, consistent with any applicable federal law, the protection and preservation of public health and safety in the siting, design, development, licensure or other regulation, operation, closure, decommissioning and long-term care of the regional facilities within the state;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to the approval of the board, ensure that charges for management of low-level waste at the regional facilities within the state are reasonable;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">“(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Solicit comments from each other party state and the board regarding siting, design, development, licensure or other regulation, operation, closure, decommissioning and long-term care of the regional facilities within the state and respond in writing to such comments;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="v">“(v) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Submit an annual report to the board which contains projections of the anticipated future capacity and availability of the regional facilities within the state, together with other information required by the board; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vi">“(vi) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Notify the board immediately if any exigency arises requiring the possible temporary or permanent closure of a regional facility within the state at a time earlier than was projected in the state's most recent annual report to the board.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Once a party state has served as a host state, it shall not be obligated to serve again until each other party state having an obligation under subsection (c) of this article has fulfilled that obligation. Nevada, already being a host state, shall not be obligated to serve again as a host state until every other party state has so served.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“(f) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Agrees to adopt and enforce procedures requiring low-level waste shipments originating within its borders and destined for a regional facility to conform to packaging and transportation requirements and regulations. Such procedures shall include but are not limited to:</content> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Periodic inspection of packaging and shipping practices;</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Periodic inspections of waste containers while in the custody of carriers; and</content> </subparagraph> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Appropriate enforcement actions with respect to violations.</chapeau> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Agrees that after receiving notification from a host state that a person in the party state has violated packaging, shipping or transportation requirements or regulations, it shall take appropriate action to ensure that violations do not recur. Appropriate action may include but is not limited to the requirement that a bond be posted by the violator to pay the cost of repackaging at the regional facility and the requirement that future shipments be inspected;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May impose fees to recover the cost of the practices provided for in paragraph (i) and (ii) of this subsection;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">“(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall maintain an inventory of all generators within the state that may have low-level waste to be managed at a regional facility; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="v">“(v) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May impose requirements or regulations more stringent than those required by this subsection.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article IV. Board Approval of Regional Facilities </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Within ninety (90) days after being requested to do so by a party state, the board shall approve or disapprove a regional facility to be located within that state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">A regional facility shall be approved by the board if and only if the board determines that:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There will be, for the foreseeable future, sufficient demand to render operation of the proposed facility economically feasible without endangering the economic feasibility of operation of any other regional facility; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The facility will have sufficient capacity to serve the needs of the region for a reasonable period of years.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article V. Surcharges </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall impose a ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">compact surcharge</quotedText>’ per unit of waste received at any regional facility. The surcharge shall be adequate to pay the costs and expenses of the board in the conduct of its authorized activities and may be increased or decreased as the board deems necessary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state may impose a ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">state surcharge</quotedText>’ per unit of waste received at any regional facility within the state. The host state may fix and change the amount of the state surcharge subject to approval by the board. Money received from the state surcharge may be used by the host state for any purpose authorized by its own law, including but not limited to costs of licensure and regulatory activities related to the regional facility, reserves for decommissioning and long-term care of the regional facility and local impact assistance.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article VI. The Board </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Rocky Mountain low-level radioactive waste board</quotedText>’, which shall not be an agency or instrumentality of any party state, is created.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall consist of one (1) member from each party state. The governor shall determine how and for what term its member shall be appointed, and how and for what term any alternate may be appointed to perform that member's duties on the board in the member's absence.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state is entitled to one (1) vote. A majority of the board constitutes a quorum. Unless otherwise provided in this compact, a majority of the total number of votes on the board is necessary for the board to take any action.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall meet at least once a year and otherwise as its business requires. Meetings of the board may be held in any place within the region deemed by the board to be reasonably convenient for the attendance of persons required or entitled to attend and where adequate accommodations may be found. Reasonable public notice and opportunity for comment shall be given with respect to any meeting; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection shall preclude the board from meeting in executive session when seeking legal advice from its attorneys or when discussing the employment, discipline or termination of any of its employees.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall pay necessary travel and reasonable per diem expenses of its members, alternates, and advisory committee members.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall organize itself for the efficient conduct of its business. It shall adopt and publish rules consistent with this compact regarding its organization and procedures. In special circumstances the board, with unanimous consent of its members, may take actions by telephone; provided, however, that any action taken by telephone shall be confirmed in writing by each member within thirty (30) days. Any action taken by telephone shall be noted in the minutes of the board.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board may use for its purposes the services of any personnel or other resources which may be offered by any party state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board may establish its offices in space provided for that purpose by any of the party states, or, if space is not provided or is deemed inadequate, in any space within the region selected by the board.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Consistent with available funds, the board may contract for necessary personnel services to carry out its duties. Staff shall be employed without regard for the personnel, civil service, or merit system laws of any of the party states and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board may provide appropriate employee benefit programs for its staff.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall establish a fiscal year which conforms to the extent practicable to the fiscal years of the party states.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall keep an accurate account of all receipts and disbursements. An annual audit of the books of the board shall be conducted by an independent certified public accountant, and the audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the board.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“(l) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board shall prepare and include in the annual report a budget showing anticipated receipts and disbursements for the ensuing year.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“(m) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon legislative enactment of this compact, each party state shall consider the need to appropriate seventy thousand dollars ($70,000.00) to the board to support its activities prior to the collection of sufficient funds through the compact surcharge imposed pursuant to subsection (a) of article V of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">“(n) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The board may accept any donations, grants, equipment, supplies, materials or services, conditional or otherwise, from any source. The nature, amount and condition, if any, attendant upon any donation, grant or other resources accepted pursuant to this subsection, together with the identity of the donor or grantor, shall be detailed in the annual report of the board.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">“(o) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">In addition to the powers and duties conferred upon the board pursuant to other provisions of this compact, the board:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall submit communications to the governors and to the presiding officers of the legislatures of the party states regarding the activities of the board, including an annual report to be submitted by December 15;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May assemble and make available to the governments of the party states and to the public through its members information concerning low-level waste management needs, technologies and problems;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall keep a current inventory of all generators within the region, based upon information provided by the party states;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">“(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall keep a current inventory of all regional facilities, including information on the size, capacity, location, specific wastes capable of being managed and the projected useful life of each regional facility;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="v">“(v) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May keep a current inventory of all low-level waste facilities in the region, based upon information provided by the party states;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vi">“(vi) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall ascertain on a continuing basis the needs for regional facilities and capacity to manage each of the various classes of low-level waste;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="vii">“(vii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May develop a regional low-level waste management plan;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="viii">“(viii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May establish such advisory committees as it deems necessary for the purpose of advising the board on matters pertaining to the management of low-level waste;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ix">“(ix) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May contract as it deems appropriate to accomplish its duties and effectuate its powers, subject to its projected available resources; but no contract made by the board shall bind any party state;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="x">“(x) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall make suggestions to appropriate officials of the party states to ensure that adequate emergency response programs are available for dealing with any exigency that might arise with respect to low-level waste transportation or management;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="xi">“(xi) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall prepare contingency plans, with the cooperation and approval of the host state, for management of low-level waste in the event any regional facility should be closed;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="xii">“(xii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">May examine all records of operators of regional facilities pertaining to operating costs, profits or the assessment or collection of any charge, fee or surcharge;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="xiii">“(xiii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Shall have the power to sue; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="xiv">“(xiv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">When authorized by unanimous vote of its members, may intervene as of right in any administrative or judicial proceeding involving low-level waste.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article VII. Prohibited Acts and Penalties </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of low-level waste within the region, except at a regional facility; provided, however, that a generator who, prior to January 1, 1982, had been disposing of only his own waste on his own property may, subject to applicable federal and state law, continue to do so.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">After January 1, 1986, it shall be unlawful for any person to export low-level waste which was generated within the region outside the region unless authorized to do so by the board. In determining whether to grant such authorization, the factors to be considered by the board shall include, but not be limited to, the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The economic impact of the export of the waste on the regional facilities;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The economic impact on the generator of refusing to permit the export of the waste; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The availability of a regional facility appropriate for the disposal of the waste involved.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">After January 1, 1986, it shall be unlawful for any person to manage any low-level waste within the region unless the waste was generated within the region or unless authorized to do so both by the board and by the state in which said management takes place. In determining whether to grant such authorization, the factors to be considered by the board shall include, but not be limited to, the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the impact of importing waste on the available capacity and projected life of the regional facilities;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the economic impact on the regional facilities; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the availability of a regional facility appropriate for the disposal of the type of waste involved.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“(d) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">It shall be unlawful for any person to manage at a regional facility any radioactive waste other than low-level waste as defined in this compact, unless authorized to do so both by the board and the host state. In determining whether to grant such authorization, the factors to be considered by the board shall include, but not be limited to, the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <subparagraph style="-uslm-dtd:subparagraph" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the impact of allowing such management on the available capacity and projected life of the regional facilities;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the availability of a facility appropriate for the disposal of the type of waste involved;</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the existence of transuranic elements in the waste; and</content> </clause> <clause style="-uslm-dtd:clause" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentDecrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">“(iv) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the economic impact on the regional facilities.</content> </clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any person who violates subsection (a) or (b) of this article shall be liable to the board for a civil penalty not to exceed ten (10) times the charges which would have been charged for disposal of the waste at a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“(f) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any person who violates subsection (c) or (d) of this article shall be liable to the board for a civil penalty not to exceed ten (10) times the charges which were charged for management of the waste at a regional facility.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“(g) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The civil penalties provided for in subsections (e) and (f) of this article may be enforced and collected in any court of general jurisdiction within the region where necessary jurisdiction is obtained by an appropriate proceeding commenced on behalf of the board by the attorney general of the party state wherein the proceeding is brought or by other counsel authorized by the board. In any such proceeding, the board, if it prevails, is entitled to recover reasonable attorney's fees as part of its costs.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“(h) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Out of any civil penalty collected for a violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this article, the board shall pay to the appropriate operator a sum sufficient in the judgment of the board to compensate the operator for any loss of revenue attributable to the violation. Such compensation may be subject to state and compact surcharges as if received in the normal course of the operator's business. The remainder of the civil penalty collected shall be allocated by the board. In making such allocation, the board shall give first priority to the needs of the long-term care funds in the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“(i) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any civil penalty collected for a violation of subsection (c) or (d) of this article shall be allocated by the board. In making such allocation, the board shall give first priority to the needs of the long-term care funds in the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“(j) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Violations of subsection (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this article may be enjoined by any court of general jurisdiction within the region where necessary jurisdiction is obtained in any appropriate proceeding commenced on behalf of the board by the attorney general of the party state wherein the proceeding is brought or by other counsel authorized by the board. In any such proceeding, the board, if it prevails, is entitled to recover reasonable attorney's fees as part of its costs.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“(k) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No state attorney general shall be required to bring any proceeding under any subsection of this article, except upon his consent.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article VIII. Eligibility, Entry Into Effect, Congressional Consent, Withdrawal, Exclusion </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming are eligible to become parties to this compact. Any other state may be made eligible by unanimous consent of the board.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">An eligible state may become a party state by legislative enactment of this compact or by executive order of its governor adopting this compact; provided, however, a state becoming a party by executive order shall cease to be a party state upon adjournment of the first general session of its legislature convened thereafter, unless before such adjournment the legislature shall have enacted this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This compact shall take effect when it has been enacted by the legislatures of two (2) eligible states. However, subsections (b) and (c) of article VII shall not take effect until Congress has by law consented to this compact. Every five (5) years after such consent has been given, Congress may by law withdraw its consent.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“(d) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A state which has become a party state by legislative enactment may withdraw by legislation repealing its enactment of this compact; but no such repeal shall take effect until two (2) years after enactment of the repealing legislation. If the withdrawing state is a host state, any regional facility in that state shall remain available to receive low-level waste generated within the region until five (5) years after the effective date of the withdrawal; provided, however, this provision shall not apply to the existing facility in Beatty, Nevada.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“(e) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A party state may be excluded from this compact by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the members representing the other party states, acting in a meeting, on the ground that the state to be excluded has failed to carry out its obligation under this compact. Such an exclusion may be terminated upon a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the members acting in a meeting.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Article IX. Construction and Severability </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this compact shall be broadly construed to carry out the purposes of the compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this compact shall be construed to affect any judicial proceeding pending on the effective date of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">If any part or application of this compact is held invalid, the remainder, or its application to other situations or persons, shall not be affected.”</content> </subsection></quotedContent>.</content> </section> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/99/240/tII/stB/s227" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="227">SEC. 227. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">NORTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT. </heading> <chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">In accordance with section 4(a)(2) of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, the consent of the Congress is hereby given to the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland to enter into the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. Such compact is substantially as follows:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"> <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article I. Policy and Purpose </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby created the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize that the Congress has declared that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity, either within or outside its borders, for disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of atomic energy defense activities of the federal government, as defined in the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (P.L. 96–573, ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">The Act</quotedText>’), or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most efficiently on a regional basis. The party states further recognize that the Congress of the United States, by enacting the Act has provided for and encouraged the development of regional low-level radioactive waste compacts to manage such waste. The party states recognize that the long-term, safe and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste generated within the region requires that sufficient capacity to manage such waste be properly provided.</chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">“In order to promote the health and safety of the region, it is the policy of the party states to: enter into a regional low-level radioactive waste management compact as a means of facilitating an interstate cooperative effort, provide for proper transportation of low-level waste generated in the region, minimize the number of facilities required to effectively and efficiently manage low-level radioactive waste generated in the region, encourage the reduction of the amounts of low-level waste generated in the region, distribute the costs, benefits, and obligations of proper low-level radioactive waste management equitably among the party states, and ensure the environmentally sound and economical management of low-level radioactive waste.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article II. Definitions </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">commission</term>’ means the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission established pursuant to Article IV of this compact;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">custodial agency</term>’ means the agency of the government designated to act on behalf of the government owner of the regional facility;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">disposal</term>’ means the isolation of low-level radioactive waste from the biosphere inhabited by man and his food chains;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">facility</term>’ means a parcel of land, together with the structures, equipment and improvements thereon or appurtenant thereto, which is used or is being developed for the treatment, storage or disposal of low-level waste, but shall not include on-site treatment or storage by a generator;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">generator</term>’ means a person who produces or processes low-level waste, but does not include persons who only provide a service by arranging for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of wastes generated outside the region;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">high-level waste</term>’ means 1) the highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentration; and 2) any other highly radioactive material determined by the federal government as requiring permanent isolation;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">host state</term>’ means a party state in which a regional facility is located or being developed;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">institutional control</term>’ means the continued observation, monitoring, and care of the regional facility following transfer of control of the regional facility from the operator to the custodial agency;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">low-level waste</term>’ means radioactive waste that 1) is neither high-level waste nor transuranic waste, nor spent nuclear fuel, nor by-product material as defined in section 11e (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as amended; and 2) is classified by the federal government as low-level waste, consistent with existing law; but does not include waste generated as a result of atomic energy defense activities of the federal government, as defined in P.L. 96–573, or federal research and development activities;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">party state</term>’ means any state which is a signatory party in good standing to this compact;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">person</term>’ means an individual, corporation, business enterprise or other legal entity, either public or private and their legal successors;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">post-closure observation and maintenance</term>’ means the continued monitoring of a closed regional facility to ensure the integrity and environmental safety of the site through compliance with applicable licensing and regulatory requirements; prevention of unwarranted intrusion, and correction of problems;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">region</term>’ means the entire area of the party states;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">“n. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">regional facility</term>’ means a facility as defined in this section which has been designated or accepted by the Commission;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">“o. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">state</term>’ means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or any other territory subject to the laws of the United States;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="p">“p. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">storage</term>’ means the holding of waste for treatment or disposal;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="q">“q. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">transuranic waste</term>’ means waste material containing radionuclides with an atomic number greater than 92 which are excluded from shallow land burial by the federal government;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="r">“r. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">treatment</term>’ means any method, technique or process, including storage for decay, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or composition of any waste in order to render such waste safer for transport or disposal, amenable for recovery, convertible to another usable material or reduced in volume;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="s">“s. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">waste</term>’ means low-level radioactive waste as defined in this section;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease1"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="t">“t. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">‘<term style="-uslm-dtd:term">waste management</term>’ means the storage, treatment, transportation, and disposal, where applicable, of waste.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3056" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article III. Rights and Obligations</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There shall be provided within the region one or more regional facilities which, together with such other facilities as may be made available to the region, will provide sufficient capacity to manage all wastes generated within the region.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Regional facilities shall be entitled to waste generated within the region, unless otherwise provided by the Commission. To the extent regional facilities are available, no waste generated within a party state shall be exported to facilities outside the region unless such exportation is approved by the Commission and the affected host state(s).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">After January 1, 1986, no person shall deposit at a regional facility waste generated outside the region, and further, no regional facility shall accept waste generated outside the region, unless approved by the Commission and the affected host state(s).</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rights, responsibilities and obligations of each party state to this compact are as follows:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall have the right to have all wastes generated within its borders managed at regional facilities, and shall have the right of access to facilities made available to the region through agreements entered into by the Commission pursuant to Article IV(i)(11). The right of access by a generator within a party state to any regional facility is limited by the generator's adherence to applicable state and federal laws and regulations and the provisions of this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent not prohibited by federal law, each party state shall institute procedures which will require shipments of low-level waste generated within or passing through its borders to be consistent with applicable federal packaging and transportation regulations and applicable host state packaging and transportation regulations for management of low-level waste; provided, however, that these practices shall not impose unreasonable, burdensome impediments to the management of low-level waste in the region. Upon notification by a host state that a generator, shipper, or carrier within the party state is in violation of applicable packaging or transportation regulations, the party state shall take appropriate action to ensure that such violations do not recur.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state may impose reasonable fees upon generators, shippers, or carriers to recover the cost of inspections and other practices under this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall encourage generators within its borders to minimize the volumes of waste requiring disposal.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state has the right to rely on the good faith performance by every other party state of acts which ensure the provision of facilities for regional availability and their use in a manner consistent with this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall provide to the Commission any data and information necessary for the implementation of the Commission's responsibilities, and shall establish the capability to obtain any data and information necessary to meet its obligation as herein defined.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state shall have the capability to host a regional facility in a timely manner and to ensure the post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any regional facility within its borders.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“8. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No non-host party state shall be liable for any injury to persons or property resulting from the operation of a regional facility or the transportation of waste to a regional facility; however, if the host state itself is the operator of the regional facility, its liability shall be that of any private operator.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The rights, responsibilities and obligations of a host state are as follows:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent not prohibited by federal law, a host state shall ensure the timely development and the safe operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any regional facility within its borders.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In accordance with procedures established in Articles V and IX, the host state shall provide for the establishment of a reasonable structure of fees sufficient to cover all costs related to the development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of a regional facility. It may also establish surcharges to cover the regulatory costs, incentives, and compensation associated with a regional facility; provided, however, that without the express approval of the Commission, no distinction in fees or surcharges shall be made between persons of the several states party to this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent not prohibited by federal law, a host state may establish requirements and regulations pertaining to the management of waste at a regional facility; provided, however, that such requirements shall not impose unreasonable impediments to the management of low-level waste within the region. Nor may a host state or a subdivision impose such restrictive requirements on the siting or operation of a regional facility that, along or as a whole, they serve as unreasonable barriers or prohibitions to the siting or operation of such a facility.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each host state shall submit to the Commission annually a report concerning each operating regional facility within its borders. The report shall contain projections of the anticipated future capacity and availability of the regional facility, a financial audit of its operations, and other information as may be required by the Commission; and in the case of regional facilities in institutional control or otherwise no longer operating, the host states shall furnish such information as may be required on the facilities still subject to their jurisdiction.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state shall notify the Commission immediately if any exigency arises which requires the permanent, temporary, or possible closure of any regional facility located therein at a time earlier than projected in its most recent annual report to the Commission. The Commission may conduct studies, hold hearings, or take such other measures to ensure that the actions taken are necessary and compatible with the obligations of the host state under this compact.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3130" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article IV. The Commission</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby created the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. The Commission shall consist of one member from each party state to be appointed by the Governor according to procedures of each party state, except that a host state shall have two members during the period that it has an operating regional facility. The Governor shall notify the Commission in writing of the identity of the member and one alternate, who may act on behalf of the member only in the member's absence.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each Commission member shall be entitled to one vote. No action of the Commission shall be binding unless a majority of the total membership cast their vote in the affirmative.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall elect annually from among its members a presiding officer and such other officers as it deems appropriate. The Commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, such rules and regulations as are necessary for due process in the performance of its duties and powers under this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall meet at least once a year and shall also meet upon the call of the presiding officer, or upon the call of a party state member.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All meetings of the Commission shall be open to the public with reasonable prior public notice. The Commission may, by majority vote, close a meeting to the public for the purpose of considering sensitive personnel or legal matters. All Commission actions and decisions shall be made in open meetings and appropriately recorded. A roll call vote may be required upon request of any party state or the presiding officer.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may establish such committees as it deems necessary.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may appoint, contract for, and compensate such limited staff as it determines necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The staff shall serve at the Commission's pleasure irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit laws of any of the party states or the federal government and shall be compensated from funds of the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall adopt an annual budget for its operations.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall have the following duties and powers:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall receive and act on the application of a non-party state to become an eligible state in accordance with Article VII(e).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall receive and act on the application of an eligible state to become a party state in accordance with Article VII(b).</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall submit an annual report to and otherwise communicate with the governors and the presiding officer of each body of the legislature of the party states regarding the activities of the Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon request of party states, the Commission shall mediate disputes which arise between the party states regarding this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="5">“5. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall develop, adopt and maintain a regional management plan to ensure safe and effective management of waste within the region, pursuant to Article V.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="6">“6. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may conduct such legislative or adjudicatory hearings, and require such reports, studies, evidence and testimony as are necessary to perform its duties and functions.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="7">“7. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall establish by regulation, after public notice and opportunity for comment, such procedural regulations as deemed necessary to ensure efficient operation, the orderly gathering of information, and the protection of the rights of due process of affected persons.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="8">“8. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In accordance with the procedures and criteria set forth in Article V, the Commission shall accept a host state's proposed facility as a regional facility.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="9">“9. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In accordance with the procedures and criteria set forth in Article V, the Commission may designate, by a two-thirds vote, host states for the establishment of needed regional facilities. The Commission shall not exercise this authority unless the party states have failed to voluntarily pursue the development of such facilities.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="10">“10. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may require of and obtain from party states, eligible states seeking to become party states, and non-party states seeking to become eligible states, data and information necessary for the implementation of Commission responsibilities.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="11">“11. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may enter into agreements with any person, state, regional body, or group of states for the importation of waste into the region and for the right of access to facilities outside the region for waste generated within the region. Such authorization to import requires a two-thirds majority vote of the Commission, including an affirmative vote of the representatives of the host state in which any affected regional facility is located. This shall be done only after the Commission and the host state have made an assessment of the affected facilities' capability to handle such wastes and of relevant environmental, economic, and public health factors, as defined by the appropriate regulatory authorities.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="12">“12. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may, upon petition, grant an individual generator or group of generators in the region the right to export wastes to a facility located outside the region. Such grant of right shall be for a period of time and amount of waste and on such other terms and conditions as determined by the Commission and approved by the affected host states.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="13">“13. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may appear as an intervenor or party in interest before any court of law, federal, state or local agency, board or commission that has jurisdiction over the management of wastes. Such authority to intervene or otherwise appear shall be exercised only after a two-thirds vote of the Commission. In order to represent its views, the Commission may arrange for any expert testimony, reports, evidence or other participation as it deems necessary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="14">“14. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may impose sanctions, including but not limited to, fines, suspension of privileges and revocation of the membership of a party state in accordance with Article VII. The Commission shall have the authority to revoke, in accordance with Article VII(g), the membership of a party state that creates unreasonable barriers to the siting of a needed regional facility or refuses to accept host state responsibilities upon designation by the Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="15">“15. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall establish by regulation criteria for and shall review the fee and surcharge systems in accordance with Articles V and IX.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="16">“16. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall review the capability of party states to ensure the siting, operation, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any facility within its borders.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="17">“17. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall review the compact legislation every five years prior to federal congressional review provided for in the Act, and may recommend legislative action.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="18">“18. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission has the authority to develop and provide to party states such rules, regulations and guidelines as it deems appropriate for the efficient, consistent, fair and reasonable implementation of the compact.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">There is hereby established a Commission operating account. The Commission is authorized to expend monies from such account for the expenses of any staff and consultants designated under section (g) of this Article and for official Commission business. Financial support of the Commission account shall be provided as follows:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each eligible state, upon becoming a party state, shall pay $70,000 to the Commission, which shall be used for administrative cost of the Commission.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall impose a ‘<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">commission surcharge</quotedText>’ per unit of waste received at any regional facility as provided in Article V.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Until such time as at least one regional facility is in operation and accepting waste for management, or to the extent that revenues under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section are unavailable or insufficient to cover the approved annual budget of the Commission, each party state shall pay an apportioned amount of the difference between the funds available and the total budget in accordance with the following formula:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“(a) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">20 percent in equal shares;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“(b) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">30 percent in the proportion that the population of the party state bears to the total population of all party states, according to the most recent U.S. census;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“(c) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">50 percent in the proportion that the waste generated for management in each party state bears to the total waste generated for management in the region for the most recent calendar year in which reliable data are available, as determined by the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. An independent certified public accountant shall annually audit all receipts and disbursements of Commission accounts and funds and submit an audit report to the Commission. Such audit report shall be made a part of the annual report of the Commission required by Article IV(i)(3).</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="l">“l. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission may accept, receive, utilize and dispose for any of its purposes and functions any and all donations, loans, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services (conditional or otherwise) from any state or the United States or any subdivision or agency thereof, or interstate agency, or from any institution, person, firm or corporation. The nature, amount and condition, if any, attendant upon any donation, loans, or grant accepted pursuant to this paragraph, together with the identity of the donor, grantor, or lender, shall be detailed in the annual report of the Commission. The Commission shall by rule establish guidelines for the acceptance of donations, loans, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services. This shall provide that no donor, grantor or lender may derive unfair or unreasonable advantage in any proceeding before the Commission.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="m">“m. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission herein established is a body corporate and politic, separate and distinct from the party states and shall be so liable for its own actions. Liabilities of the Commission shall not be deemed liabilities of the party states, nor shall members of the Commission be personally liable for action taken by them in their official capacity.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall not be responsible for any costs or expenses associated with the creation, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of any regional facility, or any associated regulatory activities of the party states.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as otherwise provided herein, this compact shall not be construed to alter the incidence of liability of any kind for any act, omission, or course of conduct. Generators, shippers and carriers of wastes, and owners and operators of sites shall be liable for their acts, omissions, conduct, or relationships in accordance with all laws relating thereto.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="n">“n. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The United States district courts in the District of Columbia shall have original jurisdiction of all actions brought by or against the Commission. Any such action initiated in a state court shall be removed to the designated United States district court in the manner provided by Act of June 25, 1948 as amended (28 U.S.C. §1446). This section shall not alter the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the final administrative decisions of the Commission as set forth in the paragraph below.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="o">“o. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shall have jurisdiction to review the final administrative decisions of the Commission.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any person aggrieved by a final administrative decision may obtain review of the decision by filing a petition for review within 60 days after the Commission's final decision.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that review is sought of the Commission's decision relative to the designation of a host state, the Court of Appeals shall accord the matter an expedited review, and, if the Court does not rule within 90 days after a petition for review has been filed, the Commission's decision shall be deemed to be affirmed.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The courts shall not substitute their judgment for that of the Commission as to the decisions of policy or weight of the evidence on questions of fact. The Court may affirm the decision of the Commission or remand the case for further proceedings if it finds that the petitioners has been aggrieved because the finding, inferences, conclusions or decisions of the Commission are:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in violation of the Constitution of the United States;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in excess of the authority granted to the Commission by this compact;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">made upon unlawful procedure to the detriment of any person;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">arbitrary or capricious or characterized by abuse of discretion or clearly unwarranted exercise of discretion.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall be deemed to be acting in a legislative capacity except in those instances where it decides, pursuant to its rules and regulations, that its determinations are adjudicatory in nature.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3333" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article V. Host State Selection and Development and Operation of Regional Facilities</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall develop, adopt, maintain, and implement a regional management plan to ensure the safe and efficient management of waste within the region. The plan shall include the following:</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a current inventory of all generators within the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a current inventory of all facilities within the region, including information on the size, capacity, location, specific waste being handled, and projected useful life of each facility;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">consistent with considerations for public health and safety as defined by appropriate regulatory authorities, a determination of the type and number of regional facilities which are presently necessary and projected to be necessary to manage waste generated within the region;</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">reference guidelines, as defined by appropriate regulatory authorities, for the party states for establishing the criteria and procedures to evaluate locations for regional facilities.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall develop and adopt criteria and procedures for reviewing a party state which volunteers to host a regional facility within its borders. These criteria shall be developed with public notice and shall include the following factors: the capability of the volunteering party state to host a regional facility in a timely manner and to ensure its post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control; and the anticipated economic feasibility of the proposed facility.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state may volunteer to host a regional facility within its borders. The Commission may set terms and conditions to encourage a party state to volunteer to be the first host state.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Consistent with the review required above, the Commission shall, upon a two-thirds affirmative vote, designate a volunteering party state to serve as a host state.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">If all regional facilities required by the regional management plan are not developed pursuant to section (b), or upon notification that an existing facility will be closed, or upon determination that an additional regional facility is or may be required, the Commission shall convene to consider designation of a host state.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall develop and adopt procedures for designating a party state to be a host state for a regional facility. The Commission shall base its decision on the following criteria:</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the health, safety and welfare of citizens of the party states as defined by the appropriate regulatory authorities;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the environmental, economic, and social effects of a regional facility on the party states;”</content> </subsection> </section></quotedContent></chapeau> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="OLC" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentIncrease1"><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall also base its decision on the following criteria:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block"> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">economic benefits and costs;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the volumes and types of waste generated within each party state;</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the minimization of waste transportation; and</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear" class="leftIndentIncrease2"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the existence of regional facilities within the party states.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Following its established criteria and procedures, the Commission shall designate by a two-thirds affirmative vote a party state to serve as a host state. A current host state shall have the right of first refusal for a succeeding regional facility.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall conduct such hearings and studies, and take such evidence and testimony as is required by its approved procedures prior to designating a host state. Public hearings shall be held upon request in each candidate host state prior to final evaluation and selection.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A party state which has been designated as a host state by the Commission and which fails to fulfill its obligations as a host state may have its privileges under the compact suspended or membership in the compact revoked by the Commission.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each host state shall be responsible for the timely identification of a site and the timely development and operation of a regional facility. The proposed facility shall meet geologic, environmental and economic criteria which shall not conflict with applicable federal and host state laws and regulations.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent not prohibited by federal law, a host state may regulate and license any facility within its borders.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent not prohibited by Federal law, a host state shall ensure the safe operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of a facility, including adequate financial assurances by the operator and adequate emergency response procedures. It shall periodically review and report to the Commission on the status of the post-closure and institutional control funds and the remaining useful life of the facility.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state shall solicit comments from each party state and the Commission regarding the siting, operation, financial assurances, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of a regional facility.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state intending to close a regional facility within its borders shall notify the Commission in writing of its intention and reasons therefore.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as otherwise provided, such notification shall be given to the Commission at least five years prior to the scheduled date of closure.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state may close a regional facility within its borders in the event of an emergency or if a condition exists which constitutes a substantial threat to public health and safety. A host state shall notify the Commission in writing within three days of its action and shall, within 30 working days, show justification for the closing.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the event that a regional facility closes before an additional or new facility becomes operational, the Commission shall make interim arrangements for the storage or disposal of waste generated within the region until such time that a new regional facility is operational.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Fees and surcharges shall be imposed equitably upon all users of a regional facility, based upon criteria established by the Commission.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state shall, according to its lawful administrative procedures, approve fee schedules to be charged to all users of the regional facility within its borders. Except as provided herein, such fee schedules shall be established by the operator of a regional facility, under applicable state regulations, and shall be reasonable and sufficient to cover all costs related to the development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, institutional control of the regional facility. The host state shall determine a schedule for contributions to the post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control funds. Such fee schedules shall not be approved unless the Commission has been given reasonable opportunity to review and make recommendations on the proposed fee schedules.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A host state may, according to its lawful administrative procedures, impose a state surcharge per unit of waste received at any regional facility within its borders. The state surcharge shall be in addition to the fees charged for waste management. The surcharge shall be sufficient to cover all reasonable costs associated with administration and regulation of the facility. The surcharge shall not be established unless the Commission has been provided reasonable opportunity to review and make recommendations on the proposed state surcharge.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">“3. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall impose a commission surcharge per unit of waste received at any regional facility. The total monies collected shall be adequate to pay the costs and expenses of the Commission and shall be remitted to the Commission on a timely basis as determined by the Commission. The surcharge may be increased or decreased as the Commission deems necessary.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="4">“4. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the ability of the host state, or the political subdivision in which the regional facility is situated, to impose surcharges for purposes including, but not limited to, host community compensation and host community development incentives. Such surcharges shall be reasonable and shall not be imposed unless the Commission has been provided reasonable opportunity to review and make recommendations on the proposed surcharge. Such surcharge may be recovered through the approved fee and surcharge schedules provided for in this section.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3468" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article VI. Other Laws and Regulations</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or limit the regulatory responsibility or authority of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of an Agreement State under Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The laws or portions of those laws of a party state that are not inconsistent with this compact remain in full force.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this compact shall make unlawful the continued development and operation of any facility already licensed for development or operation on the date this compact becomes effective.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No judicial or administrative proceeding pending on the effective date of the compact shall be affected by the compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Except as provided for in Article III(b)(2) and (c)(3), this compact shall not affect the relations between and the respective internal responsibilities of the government of a party state and its subdivisions.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The generation, treatment, storage, transportation, or disposal of waste generated by the atomic energy defense activities of the federal government, as defined in P.L. 96–573, or federal research and development activities are not affected by this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">To the extent that the rights and powers of any state or political subdivision to license and regulate any facility within its borders and to impose taxes, fees, and surcharges on the waste managed at that regional facility do not operate as an unreasonable impediment to the transportation, treatment or disposal of waste, such rights and powers shall not be diminished by this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No party state shall enact any law or regulation or attempt to enforce any measure which is inconsistent with this compact. Such measures may provide the basis for the Commission to suspend or terminate a party state's membership and privileges under this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All laws and regulations, or parts thereof of any party state or subdivision or instrumentality thereof which are inconsistent with this compact are hereby repealed and declared null and void. Any legal right, obligation, violation or penalty arising under such laws or regulations prior to the enactment of this compact, or not in conflict with it, shall not be affected.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="j">“j. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Subject to Article III(c)(2), no law or regulation of a party state or subdivision or instrumentality thereof may be applied so as to restrict or make more costly or inconvenient access to any regional facility by the generators of another party state than for the generators of the state where the facility is situated.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="k">“k. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No law, ordinance, or regulation of any party state or any subdivision or instrumentality thereof shall prohibit, suspend, or unreasonably delay, limit or restrict the operation of a siting or licensing agency in the designation, siting, or licensing of a regional facility. Any such provision in existence at the time of ratification of this compact is hereby repealed.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3515" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article VII. Eligible Parties, Withdrawal, Revocation, Entry Into Force, Termination</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The initially eligible parties to this compact shall be the eleven states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Initial eligibility will expire June 30, 1984.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each state eligible to become a party state to this compact shall be declared a party state upon enactment of this compact into law by the state, repeal of all statutes or statutory provisions that pose unreasonable impediments to the capability of the state to host a regional facility in a timely manner, and upon payment of the fees required by Article IV(j)(1). An eligible state may become a party to this compact by an executive order by the governor of the state and upon payment of the fees required by Article IV(j)(1). However, any state which becomes a party state by executive order shall cease to be a party state upon the final adjournment of the next general or regular session of its legislature, unless this compact has by then been enacted as a statute by the state and all statutes and statutory provisions that conflict with the compact have been repealed.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The compact shall become effective in a party state upon enactment by that state. It shall not become initially effective in the region until enacted into law by three party states and consent given to it by the Congress.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The first three states eligible to become party states to this compact which adopt this compact into law as required in Article VII(b) shall immediately, upon the appointment of their Commission members, constitute themselves as the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. They shall cause legislation to be introduced in the Congress which grants the consent of the Congress to this compact, and shall do those things necessary to organize the Commission and implement the provisions of this compact.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall be the judge of the qualifications of the party states and of its members and of their compliance with the conditions and requirements of this compact and of the laws of the party states relating to the enactment of this compact.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">All succeeding states eligible to become party states to this compact shall be declared party states pursuant to the provisions of section (b) of this Article.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="e">“e. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any state not expressly declared eligible to become a party state to this compact in section (a) of this Article may petition the Commission to be declared eligible. The Commission may establish such conditions as it deems necessary and appropriate to be met by a state requesting eligibility as a party state to this compact pursuant to the provisions of this section, including a public hearing on the application. Upon satisfactorily meeting such conditions and upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Commission, including the affirmative vote of the representatives of the host states in which any affected regional facility is located, the petitioning state shall be eligible to become a party state to this compact and may become a party state in the same manner as those states declared eligible in section (a) of this Article.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="f">“f. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">No state holding membership in any other regional compact for the management of low-level radioactive waste may become a member of this compact.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="g">“g. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state which fails to comply with the provisions of this compact or to fulfill its obligations hereunder may have its privileges suspended or, upon a two-thirds vote of the Commission, after full opportunity for hearing and comment, have its membership in the compact revoked. Revocation shall take effect one year from the date the affected party state receives written notice from the Commission of its action. All legal rights of the affected party state established under this compact shall cease upon the effective date of revocation, except that any legal obligations of that party state arising prior to revocation will not cease until they have been fulfilled. As soon as practicable after a Commission decision suspending or revoking party state status, the Commission shall provide written notice of the action and a copy of the resolution to the governors and the presiding officer of each body of the state legislatures of the party states, and to chairmen of the appropriate committees of the Congress.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="h">“h. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Any party state may withdraw from this compact by repealing its authorization legislation, and all legal rights under this compact of the party state cease upon repeal. However, no such withdrawal shall take effect until five years after the Governor of the withdrawing state has given notice in writing of such withdrawal to the Commission and to the governor of each party state. No withdrawal shall affect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a party state prior to that time.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Upon receipt of the notification, the Commission shall, as soon as practicable, provide copies to the governors and the presiding officer of each body of the state legislatures of the party states, and to the chairmen of the appropriate committees of the Congress.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">A regional facility in a withdrawing state shall remain available to the region for five years after the date the Commission receives written notification of the intent to withdraw or until the prescheduled date of closure, whichever occurs first.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="i">“i. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">This compact may be terminated only by the affirmative action of the Congress or by the repeal of all laws enacting the compact in each party state. The Congress may by law withdraw its consent every five years after the compact takes effect.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The consent given to this compact by the Congress shall extend to any future admittance of new party states under sections (b) and (e) of this Article.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The withdrawal of a party state from this compact under section (h) or the revocation of a state's membership in this compact under section (g) of this Article shall not affect the applicability of the compact to the remaining party states.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3578" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article VIII. Penalties</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Each party state, consistent with federal and host state regulations and laws, shall enforce penalties against any person not acting as an official of a party state for violation of this compact in the party state. Each party state acknowledges that the shipment to a host state of waste packaged or transported in violation of applicable laws and regulations can result in the imposition of sanctions by the host state. These sanctions may include, but are not limited to, suspension or revocation of the violator's right of access to the facility in the host state.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Without the express approval of the Commission, it shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any low-level waste within the region except at a regional facility; provided, however, that this restriction shall not apply to waste which is permitted by applicable federal or state regulations to be discarded without regard to its radioactivity.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Unless specifically approved by the Commission and affected host state(s) pursuant to Article IV, it shall be a violation of this compact for: 1) any person to deposit at a regional facility waste not generated within the region; 2) any regional facility to accept waste not generated within the region; and 3) any person to export from the region waste generated within the region.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Primary responsibility for enforcing provisions of the law will rest with the affected state or states. The Commission, upon a two-thirds vote of its members, may bring action to seek enforcement or appropriate remedies against violators of the provisions and regulations for this compact as provided for in Article IV.</content><foreign id="warning-d2134372e3596" note="processing mode: unknown" role="passthroughContent"><compsdtd:para xmlns:compsdtd="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/comps-dtd" align="center" commented="no"><compsdtd:smallcaps>Article IX. Compensation Provisions</compsdtd:smallcaps></compsdtd:para></foreign> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">“a. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The responsibility for ensuring compensation and clean-up during the operational and post-closure periods rests with the host state, as set forth herein.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The host state shall ensure the availability of funds and procedures for compensation of injured persons, including facility employees, and property damage (except any possible claims for diminution of property values) due to the existence and operation of a regional facility, and for clean-up and restoration of the facility and surrounding areas.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The state may satisfy this obligation by requiring bonds, insurance, compensation funds, or any other means or combination of means, imposed either on the facility operator or assumed by the state itself, or both. Nothing in this article alters the liability of any person or governmental entity under applicable state and federal laws.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">“b. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission shall provide a means of compensation for persons injured or property damaged during the institutional control period due to the radioactive and waste management nature of the regional facility. This responsibility may be met by a special fund, insurance, or other means.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“1. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The Commission is authorized, at its discretion, to impose a waste management surcharge, to be collected by the operator or owner of the regional facility; to establish a separate insurance entity, formed by but separate from the Commission itself, but under such terms and conditions as it decides, and exempt from state insurance regulation; to contract with this company or other entity for coverage; or to take any other measures, or combination of measures, to implement the goals of this section.</content> </paragraph> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="OLC"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“2. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The existence of this fund or other means of compensation shall not imply any liability by the Commission, the non-host party states, or any of their officials and staff, which are exempted from liability by other provisions of this compact. Claims or suits for compensation shall be directed against the fund, the insurance company, or other entity, unless the Commission, by regulation, directs otherwise.</content> </paragraph> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">“c. </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not withstanding any other provisions, the Commission fund, insurance, or other means of compensation shall also be available for third party relief during the operational and post-closure periods, as the Commission may direct, but only to the extent that no other funds, insurance, tort compensation, or other means are available from the host state or other entities, under section a. of this Article or otherwise; provided, that this Commission contribution shall not apply to clean-up or restoration of the regional facility and its environs during the operational and post-closure period.</content> </subsection> <subsection style="-uslm-dtd:subsection" styleType="nuclear"> <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“d. </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The liability of the Commission's fund, insurance entity, or any other means of compensation shall be limited to the amount currently contained therein; provided that the Commission may set some lower limit to ensure the integrity and availability of the fund or other entity for liability.</chapeau> <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" styleType="traditional" role="undesignated-level" class="leftIndentDecrease1"> <heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">“Article X. Severability and Construction </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared by a federal court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the Constitution of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any other government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to give effect to the purposes thereof.”</content> </paragraph> </subsection></quotedContent>.</content> </subsection> </section> </subtitle>