Government Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Extension Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1879
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2013-05-08
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: New Mexico

Radioactive wastes and releases
Latest action: action_date: 2013-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Government Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Extension Act of 2013- Directs the Secretary of Energy to manage the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in such a way as to include the transportation and disposal of any non-defense federally-owned transuranic waste meeting certain criteria described in the document entitled &quot;Transuranic Waste Acceptance Criteria For The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,&quot; published by the Department of Energy (DOE) on April 21, 2011.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1879 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 8, 2013 Mr. Pearce (for himself and Mr. Reed ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To provide for the safe disposal of Federal Government-owned transuranic waste for the benefit of all Americans.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Government Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Extension Act of 2013 . 2. Extension of waste isolation pilot plant mission The Secretary of Energy shall manage WIPP in such a way as to include, in addition to the disposal of wastes authorized by section 213 of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96–164 ; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265), the transportation and disposal of any non-defense Federal Government-owned transuranic waste that can be shown to meet the applicable criteria described in the document entitled Transuranic Waste Acceptance Criteria For The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant , published by the Department of Energy on April 21, 2011, or any successor document. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Disposal; transuranic waste The terms disposal and transuranic waste have the meanings given those terms in section 2 of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act ( Public Law 102–579 ; 106 Stat. 4777). (2) WIPP The term WIPP means the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant project authorized under section 213 of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96–164 ; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265).