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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5632 
To direct the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program to provide payments 
to communities in which a nuclear power plant that has ceased gener-
ating electricity and that stores spent nuclear fuel onsite is located, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 6, 2016 
Mr. DOLD (for himself, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. WELCH, and Mr. RIBBLE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program 
to provide payments to communities in which a nuclear 
power plant that has ceased generating electricity and 
that stores spent nuclear fuel onsite is located, 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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stranded Nuclear 
Waste Accountability Act of 2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROGRAM FOR PAYMENTS TO COMMUNITIES THAT 
ARE IMPACTED BY INTERIM STORAGE OF 
SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL. 
(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Energy shall estab-
lish and carry out a program to make payments to units 
of general local government within the jurisdictional 
boundaries of which an eligible civilian nuclear power 
plant is located. 
(b) PAYMENTS.— 
(1) AMOUNT.—Except as provided in paragraph 
(3), a payment made to a unit of general local gov-
ernment under the program established under sub-
section (a) shall be equal to $15 per kilogram of 
spent nuclear fuel stored at the eligible civilian nu-
clear power plant that is located within the jurisdic-
tional boundaries of such unit of general local gov-
ernment. 
(2) NUMBER AND FREQUENCY.—For each eligi-
ble civilian nuclear power plant, the Secretary may 
only make one payment to one unit of general local 
government per fiscal year under the program estab-
lished under subsection (a). 
(3) PRO
RATA
REDUCTION.—For any fiscal 
year, the Secretary shall, on a pro rata basis, reduce 
the amount paid to a unit of general local govern-
ment under the program established under sub-
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section (a) as necessary to ensure, to the extent pos-
sible, that a payment is made to a unit of general 
local government with respect to each eligible civilian 
nuclear power plant for that fiscal year. 
(4) ANNUAL APPLICATION.—In order to be eli-
gible to receive a payment under the program estab-
lished under subsection (a) for a fiscal year, a unit 
of general local government shall submit an applica-
tion to the Secretary. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) CIVILIAN NUCLEAR POWER REACTOR.—The 
term ‘‘civilian nuclear power reactor’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 2(6) of the Nuclear 
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101(6)). 
(2) 
ELIGIBLE
CIVILIAN
NUCLEAR
POWER 
PLANT.—The term ‘‘eligible civilian nuclear power 
plant’’ means a site at which— 
(A) each civilian nuclear power reactor lo-
cated at such site has ceased generating elec-
tricity prior to the date of enactment of this 
Act; and 
(B) spent nuclear fuel is being stored. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Energy. 
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(4) SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL.—The term ‘‘spent 
nuclear fuel’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 2(23) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 
1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101(23)). 
(5) UNIT OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT.— 
The term ‘‘unit of general local government’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 2(28) of the Nu-
clear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 
10101(28)). 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for the 
program established under subsection (a) for each of fiscal 
years 2017 through 2023. 
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