Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

United States116th CongressS-649Senate
Updated: May 1, 2019

Summary

Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act This bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from using the Nuclear Waste Fund for certain expenditures involving repositories for disposing of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste. Specifically, DOE may not use the fund to pay for disposal in a repository or planning, construction, or operation of a repository unless DOE has entered into an agreement with the state in which the repository is located and with affected local governments and Indian tribes.

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HR-1544: Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

    Senate

  2. Introduced in Senate

  3. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 116-29.

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