Bill Text: TX HB4095 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the transportation, storage, and disposal of certain radioactive waste.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB4095 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4095-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 4095 | |
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| relating to the transportation, storage, and disposal of certain | ||
| radioactive waste. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 401, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 401.072 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 401.072. TRANSPORTATION, STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL OF | ||
| GREATER THAN CLASS C WASTE AND HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE. (a) | ||
| In this section: | ||
| (1) "Consolidated interim storage facility" means a | ||
| facility operated for the storage of radioactive waste from one or | ||
| more sources before disposal, not including a facility located on | ||
| the site where the waste is generated. | ||
| (2) "Greater than Class C waste" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by 10 C.F.R. Section 72.3. Section 401.005 does not apply | ||
| to this definition. | ||
| (3) "High-level radioactive waste" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by 10 C.F.R. Section 72.3. Section 401.005 does not apply | ||
| to this definition. | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsections (d) and (e), the commission may | ||
| not authorize: | ||
| (1) the acceptance of greater than Class C waste or | ||
| high-level radioactive waste for disposal or for storage at a | ||
| consolidated interim storage facility; or | ||
| (2) the transportation in this state of greater than | ||
| Class C waste or high-level radioactive waste that did not | ||
| originate in this state. | ||
| (c) Subject to Subsections (d) and (e), a person may not: | ||
| (1) accept greater than Class C waste or high-level | ||
| radioactive waste for disposal or for storage at a consolidated | ||
| interim storage facility; or | ||
| (2) transport in this state greater than Class C waste | ||
| or high-level radioactive waste that did not originate in this | ||
| state. | ||
| (d) If federal law requires the acceptance of greater than | ||
| Class C waste or high-level radioactive waste for disposal or for | ||
| storage at a consolidated interim storage facility in this state, | ||
| the commission may deny a license or other authorization for | ||
| disposal or for storage of the waste at the facility if the facility | ||
| does not satisfy all commission requirements. | ||
| (e) If federal law requires the transportation in this state | ||
| of greater than Class C waste or high-level radioactive waste that | ||
| did not originate in this state, the commission may deny | ||
| authorization for the transportation of the waste in this state if | ||
| all commission requirements regarding the transportation are not | ||
| satisfied. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
