S 2396
115th Congress
Senate
Energy
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Emergency planning and evacuation
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Safe and Secure Decommissioning Act of 2018
Introduced: February 7, 2018
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 7, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Feb 7, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Safe and Secure Decommissioning Act of 2018
This bill amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from approving the request of a licensee for a waiver of, or exemption from, a covered regulation applicable to a civilian nuclear power reactor that has permanently ceased to operate.
A covered regulation includes: (1) an emergency preparedness or response regulation or requirement, or (2) a security regulation or requirement applicable to spent nuclear fuel.
This prohibition shall not apply to a civilian nuclear power reactor at which all spent nuclear fuel has been transferred to spent nuclear fuel dry casks.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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