of the Environmental Protection Agency considers 
appropriate. The determinations shall be based on 
proximity to major agricultural zones, population 
centers, public water resources, and areas with high 
levels of fallout from previous tests. 
(e) PUBLIC NOTICE OF MONITORING DATA.—The 
Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency each shall ensure that all information 
on radiation obtained through monitoring under sub-
section (a) is made available to the public on the Internet 
as soon as available, and in any event not more than 24 
hours after such information is collected. 
(f) FINDING OF RELEASE.—If, in monitoring any 
such test, the head of any element of the Federal Govern-
ment determines that a release of radiation beyond the 
boundaries of the Nevada National Security Site has oc-
curred— 
(1) the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall immediately submit a report 
to Congress providing notice of that determination; 
(2) the United States shall stop all testing of all 
nuclear weapons, except as otherwise provided in an 
Act enacted after the date of the test; and 
(3) the Attorney General shall carry out a pro-
gram, substantially similar to the program under 
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section 4 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation 
Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note), under which compensa-
tion is provided to individuals adversely affected by 
that release of radiation. 
SEC. 10. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY 
OF RADIATION AND HUMAN HEALTH. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—From amounts made avail-
able to carry out this section, the Director of the National 
Institutes of Health shall make a grant to a university 
or a consortium of universities located in the inter-
mountain west region of the United States to establish, 
maintain, and operate a center described in subsection (b), 
to be known as the National Center for the Study of Radi-
ation and Human Health. 
(b) ACTIVITIES.—The activities of the National Cen-
ter for the Study of Radiation and Human Health shall 
include the following: 
(1) Awarding grants to institutions of higher 
education for research on the relationship between 
radiation and human health, including any health ef-
fects or illness related to exposure to particular ra-
dioactive isotopes. 
(2) Studying the relationship between radiation 
and human health, including fallout data collection. 
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(3) Coordinating efforts relating to research on 
radiation and human health. 
(4) Collecting, maintaining, and making avail-
able to the public by means of the Internet an ar-
chive of fallout data and human health effects data. 
(c) REPORT.—The National Center for the Study of 
Radiation and Human Health shall submit to Congress, 
and make available to the public, an annual report on the 
activities of the Center. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section. 
SEC. 11. STUDY OF INDIVIDUALS EXPOSED TO NUCLEAR 
WEAPONS TESTS. 
Not later than 3 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, acting through the Director of the National Can-
cer Institute, shall— 
(1) complete a study to estimate the dose of all 
radionuclides received by the United States popu-
lation as a result of exposure to nuclear weapons 
tests conducted in the United States; 
(2) disaggregate the results of such study by 
organ, by radionuclide, and by demographic vari-
ables; 
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(3) submit a report to Congress on the results 
of such study; and 
(4) make such results publicly available. 
SEC. 12. NEVADA TEST SITE REFERENCE. 
Except as otherwise provided, any reference to the 
‘‘Nevada Test Site’’ in this Act or any other law shall be 
deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Nevada National Secu-
rity Site’’. 
SEC. 13. DEFINITION. 
For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘nuclear weapon’’ 
includes other nuclear explosive devices producing a nu-
clear yield. 
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