be required for as long as any residual radioactive 
and hazardous waste and materials that may remain 
at the Center present a hazard to the public. 
(9) Public participation has been an important 
part of the work already done, and the planning now 
in progress, toward remediation of radioactive 
wastes at the Center. 
(b) PURPOSES.—(1) It is the intent of Congress that 
the Federal Government achieve complete remediation of 
all radioactive, solid, and hazardous waste contamination 
at the Center in a manner that is protective of the Great 
Lakes region and its residents and is consistent with all 
applicable State and Federal laws and regulations regard-
ing public health and safety. 
(2) This Act establishes exclusive Federal responsi-
bility for the complete remediation of the Center. 
(3) The Secretary shall employ the best current tech-
nologies and develop new state-of-the-art technologies and 
methodologies to accomplish the complete remediation of 
the Center. 
(4) This Act recognizes the importance of State, 
Tribal, and public involvement in the development, selec-
tion, enforcement, and monitoring of remedial actions un-
dertaken at the Center, to protect the health and safety 
of the citizens and environment of the Great Lakes region. 
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(5) This Act shall replace and supersede the West 
Valley Demonstration Project Act. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘Center’’ means— 
(A) the Western New York Nuclear Service 
Center in West Valley, New York; and 
(B) all land, roads, structures, including 
buildings, fixtures, containers, and radioactive, 
hazardous, and solid waste and nuclear material 
at the Western New York Nuclear Service Cen-
ter, including the reprocessing and storage fa-
cilities, equipment, above-ground and under-
ground tanks, solidified radioactive waste, and 
radioactive and nonradioactive wastes and ma-
terials in the State and Commission licensed 
disposal areas, located within the legal bound-
aries of the Western New York Nuclear Service 
Center. 
(2) The term ‘‘Commission’’ means the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission. 
(3) The term ‘‘hazardous waste’’ means any 
solid waste designated as hazardous waste under 40 
CFR Part 261 or as may be subsequently defined as 
such by the Environmental Protection Agency, any 
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solid waste designated as a hazardous waste under 
the State program authorized by the Environmental 
Protection Agency pursuant to the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act, and any waste material designated as a 
hazardous waste under any other State statute or 
regulation. 
(4) The term ‘‘high level radioactive waste’’ 
means the high level radioactive waste which was 
produced by the reprocessing at the Center of spent 
nuclear fuel. Such term includes both liquid wastes 
which are produced directly in reprocessing, dry 
solid material derived from such liquid waste, and 
any such other material the Commission designates 
as high level radioactive waste for purposes of pro-
tecting public health and safety. 
(5) The term ‘‘License Termination Rule’’ 
means the rule of the Commission published at 62 
Federal Register 39058. 
(6) The term ‘‘low level radioactive waste’’ 
means radioactive waste not classified as high level 
radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic 
waste, or byproduct material as defined in section 11 
e.(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. 
(7) The term ‘‘nuclear materials’’ means any 
special nuclear material, source material, or byprod-
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uct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 and 10 CFR Part 40, or other such material 
as the Commission may subsequently designate as 
special, source, or byproduct nuclear material. 
(8) The term ‘‘radioactive waste’’ means low 
level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, and high 
level radioactive waste. 
(9) The term ‘‘remediation’’ means activities or 
processes used to remove, destroy, degrade, trans-
form, immobilize, or treat radioactive, solid, or haz-
ardous waste. 
(10) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Energy. 
(11) The term ‘‘solid waste’’ means any mate-
rial that is designated as solid waste under 40 CFR 
Part 261 or as may be subsequently defined as such 
by the Environmental Protection Agency, under the 
State program authorized by the Environmental 
Protection Agency pursuant to the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act, or under any other State statute or regu-
lation. 
(12) The term ‘‘State’’ means the State of New 
York. 
(13) The term ‘‘transuranic waste’’ means ma-
terial contaminated with elements which have an 
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