Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1972
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-04-22
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Emergency planning and evacuation

Licensing and registrations

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Nuclear power

Radioactive wastes and releases

Terrorism
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2015</b></p> <p> Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.</p> <p>Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable to an original application for initial construction.</p> <p>Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not available at the time of original licensing, have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1972 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 22, 2015 Mrs. Lowey (for herself and Mr. Engel ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To provide certain requirements for the licensing of commercial nuclear facilities.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2015 . 2. Amendments Section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ( 42 U.S.C. 2133 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b), by inserting , including that the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and that there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events and that those plans have been approved by the relevant Federal agencies and States within 50 miles of the facility after by rule establish ; and (2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following: Any such renewal shall be subject to the same criteria and requirements that would be applicable for an original application for initial construction, and the Commission shall ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not available at time of original licensing, have not resulted in the facility being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built. .