RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Energy: provide health care benefits for certain nuclear facility workers (see S. 2848), S2945 [10AP] (see H.R. 6121), H4453 [21MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: develop a memorandum of understanding and clarify criteria for certification relative to advanced spectroscopic portal monitors (see H.R. 5531), H1341 [5MR]

———secure domestic sources of radiological materials that could be used to make a radiological dispersion device against access by terrorists (see H.R. 5624), H1701 [13MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: include participation in clean-up operations at Enewetok Atoll as a radiation-risk activity (see H.R. 4931), H293 [16JA]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures (see S. 3329), S7278 [24JY] (see H.R. 6766), H7787 [31JY]

———include certain additional former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort compensation program (see S. 2589), S601 [4FE]

Foreign policy: prohibit importation of certain low-level radioactive waste into the U.S. (see S. 3225), S6362 [7JY] (see H.R. 5632), H1701 [13MR]

Hazardous substances: provide for the safe development of a spent nuclear fuel repository at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada (see S. 2551), S283 [24JA]

Health: support efforts to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure through computed tomography scans for children (see H. Res. 1216), H4321 [20MY]

National security: upgrade security at civilian nuclear facilities and of nuclear materials that could be used to construct a dirty bomb (see S. 3444), S8035 [1AU] (see H.R. 6816), H7807 [1AU]

Nuclear energy: provide for thorium fuel cycle nuclear power generation (see S. 3680), S10486 [2OC]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Homeland Security: develop a memorandum of understanding and clarify criteria for certification relative to advanced spectroscopic portal monitors (H.R. 5531), H7180-H7182 [29JY], H7596 [30JY], E1634 [31JY]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures (H.R. 6766), E1657 [1AU]

Litvinenko, Alexander: express that fatal radiation poisoning raises significant concerns about potential involvement of the Russian Government and about security and proliferation of radioactive materials (H. Con. Res. 154), H1839-H1841 [1AP]

Remarks in Senate

Hazardous substances: prevent development of a spent nuclear fuel repository at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, S10165 [30SE]

———provide for the safe development of a spent nuclear fuel repository at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada (S. 2551), S285 [24JA], S416 [29JA]

Nuclear energy: provide for thorium fuel cycle nuclear power generation (S. 3680), S10488 [2OC]

———require commercial nuclear utilities to transfer spent nuclear fuel from pools into dry casks and convey to the Dept. of Energy title to all spent nuclear fuel thus safely stored, S10165 [30SE]

Reports filed

Next Generation Radiation Screening Act: Committee on Homeland Security (House) (H.R. 5531) (H. Rept. 110-764), H6823 [22JY]

Railroad Safety Enhancement Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1889) (S. Rept. 110-270), S1467 [3MR]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 154, express that fatal radiation poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko raises significant concerns about potential involvement of the Russian Government and about security and proliferation of radioactive materials, H1839 [1AP]

H.R. 5531, Next Generation Radiation Screening Act, H7180 [29JY]