Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

United States117th CongressHR-1524House of Representatives
Updated: Mar 3, 2021

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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Timeline

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S-541: Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

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

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.

    House of Representatives

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