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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6901 
To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the private interim storage of 
spent nuclear fuel, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2022 
Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ (for herself, Mr. PFLUGER, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. 
CUELLAR, Mr. DOGGETT, and Ms. GRANGER) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the private interim 
storage of spent nuclear fuel, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR 
PRIVATE INTERIM STORAGE OF SPENT NU-
CLEAR FUEL UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT A PER-
MANENT REPOSITORY IS AVAILABLE TO AC-
CEPT THE SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) DISPOSAL; MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STOR-
AGE FACILITY; REPOSITORY; SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL; 
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STORAGE.—The terms ‘‘disposal’’, ‘‘monitored re-
trievable storage facility’’, ‘‘repository’’, ‘‘spent nu-
clear fuel’’, and ‘‘storage’’ have the meanings given 
the terms in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy 
Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101). 
(2) MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE.—The 
term ‘‘monitored retrievable storage’’ has the same 
meaning as in subtitle C of title I of the Nuclear 
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10161 et seq.). 
(b) PROHIBITION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law and subject to subsection (c), during 
the period described in subsection (d), no Federal 
funds made available under any Act, including 
amounts made available under the permanent judg-
ment appropriation established pursuant to section 
1304 of title 31, United States Code (commonly 
known as the ‘‘Judgment Fund’’), for any fiscal year 
may be used for any costs associated with the identi-
fication, development, licensing, granting of rights- 
of-way, construction, operation, decommissioning, or 
post-decommissioning maintenance and monitoring 
of any privately owned— 
(A) monitored retrievable storage facility; 
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(B) consolidated interim storage facility 
that serves the purpose and function of mon-
itored retrievable storage under the Nuclear 
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101 et 
seq.); or 
(C) spent nuclear fuel storage facility 
that— 
(i) is not— 
(I) colocated at the site of a nu-
clear fuel production, fabrication, or 
utilization facility; or 
(II) in operation as of the date of 
enactment of this Act; and 
(ii) serves the purpose and function of 
monitored retrievable storage under the 
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 
U.S.C. 10101 et seq.). 
(2) SCOPE.—The prohibition described in para-
graph (1) extends to contracting for the services of 
a private company for any storage of spent nuclear 
fuel at, or transportation of spent nuclear fuel to, a 
privately owned facility that serves the purpose and 
function of monitored retrievable storage under the 
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101 
et seq.) for the purpose of consolidating the storage 
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of domestic spent nuclear fuel at 1 or more facilities 
until such time that a repository is available to ac-
cept the spent nuclear fuel for permanent disposal. 
(c) LIMITATIONS.—Subsection (b) does not pro-
hibit— 
(1) a manufacturer of nuclear reactors or fabri-
cator of nuclear fuel from accepting spent nuclear 
fuel at the site where the spent nuclear fuel is fab-
ricated or generated; 
(2) an operating or decommissioned nuclear 
power plant from accepting spent nuclear fuel for in-
terim storage at the site of the plant; 
(3) the use of Federal funds for the costs de-
scribed in that subsection that are associated with 
the activities described in paragraphs (1) and (2); 
(4) the use of Federal funds for storage of 
spent nuclear fuel at, or the transportation of spent 
nuclear fuel to, federally owned facilities at Depart-
ment of Energy sites in existence as of the date of 
enactment of this Act; or 
(5) the transfer of spent nuclear fuel owned by 
the Department of Energy between Department of 
Energy sites. 
(d) PERIOD OF PROHIBITION DESCRIBED.—The pe-
riod referred to in subsection (b) is the period beginning 
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