§10164 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

After the MRS Commission sends its report to Congress, the Secretary may check and study possible sites for a monitored retrievable storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. When doing that work, the Secretary must see if each site would make the disposal system more reliable and flexible; reduce impacts from moving and handling the fuel and waste; help the public trust that disposal will be safe; cause little harm to the local community and environment; have a strong chance of meeting environmental, health, and safety rules on time; offer any other helpful benefits; and not place an unfair burden on a State that stores large amounts of defense-related high-level waste.

Title 42, §10164

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After the MRS Commission submits its report to the Congress under section 10163 of this title, the Secretary may conduct a survey and evaluation of potentially suitable sites for a monitored retrievable storage facility. In conducting such survey and evaluation, the Secretary shall consider the extent to which siting a monitored retrievable storage facility at each site surveyed would—

(1)enhance the reliability and flexibility of the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste established under this chapter;

(2)minimize the impacts of transportation and handling of such fuel and waste;

(3)provide for public confidence in the ability of such system to safely dispose of the fuel and waste;

(4)impose minimal adverse effects on the local community and the local environment;

(5)provide a high probability that the facility will meet applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements in a timely fashion;

(6)provide such other benefits to the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste as the Secretary deems appropriate; and

(7)unduly burden a State in which significant volumes of high-level radioactive waste resulting from atomic energy defense activities are stored.

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.

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Title 42, §10164

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