HR 2475
100th Congress
House
Energy
Energy policy
Environmental Protection
Federal-state relations
Groundwater
Lakes
Nuclear energy
Public safety
Radiation safety
Radioactive wastes
Rivers
Water and Water Resources Development
Water supply
Waterways
A bill to enable States located on a river or acquifer affected by the siting of a repository for high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel to participate effectively in the site selection, review, and approval process for such repository, and for other purposes.
Introduced: May 20, 1987
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Everywhere this bill has been
6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 22, 1987
See H.R.3545.
Jun 9, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment.
Jun 8, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
May 20, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
May 20, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
May 20, 1987
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to grant any State which lies contiguous to a major river, waterway, or underground aquifer adjacent to which a nuclear waste repository has been proposed to be located the same right to participate in site selection, review, and approval as the State in which the repository is proposed to be located.
What's happening now
See H.R.3545.
Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
1