US SB1825 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

US Congress Senate Bill 1825 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 22 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-07-22 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5456)
Pending: Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act This bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from making an expenditure from the Nuclear Waste Fund for the costs incurred by DOE in connection with the transportation, treating, or packaging of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste to be disposed of in a repository site, to be stored in a monitored, retrievable storage site, or to be used in a test and evaluation facility, or for the costs associated with acquisition, design, modification, replacement, operation, and construction of facilities at such a site, unless DOE has entered into an agreement to host a repository with: the governor of the state in which the repository is proposed to be located, each affected local government and any contiguous local government through which spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste will be transported for disposal at the repository, and each affected Indian tribe. Any such agreement must be written and signed by all parties, shall be binding on the parties, and shall not be amended or revoked except by mutual agreement of the parties.

Title

Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-07-22	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5456)

Same As/Similar To

HB1364 (Related) 2015-03-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
SB691 (Related) 2015-03-10 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1387)