Title: Safe and Secure Decommissioning Act of 2018
Policy area: Energy

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.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2396 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2396

To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit certain waivers and 
   exemptions from emergency preparedness and response and security 
                              regulations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2018

Ms. Harris (for herself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Markey, and Mrs. Gillibrand) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit certain waivers and 
   exemptions from emergency preparedness and response and security 
                              regulations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe and Secure Decommissioning Act 
of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN WAIVERS AND EXEMPTIONS.

    Chapter 19 of title I of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 
2015 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 276 the following:

``SEC. 277. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN WAIVERS AND EXEMPTIONS.

    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Covered regulation.--The term `covered regulation' 
        means--
                    ``(A) an emergency preparedness or response 
                regulation or requirement; or
                    ``(B) a security regulation or requirement 
                applicable to spent nuclear fuel.
            ``(2) Licensee.--The term `licensee' has the meaning given 
        the term in section 50.2 of title 10, Code of Federal 
        Regulations (or any successor regulation).
    ``(b) Prohibition of Certain Waivers and Exemptions.--Subject to 
subsection (c), the Commission shall not approve 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.
    ``(c) Limitation.--Subsection (b) shall not apply to a civilian 
nuclear power reactor described in that subsection at which all spent 
nuclear fuel has been transferred to spent nuclear fuel dry casks.''.
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