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[CITE: 42USC10162]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 108--NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
 
  SUBCHAPTER I--DISPOSAL AND STORAGE OF HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE, 
           SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL, AND LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE
 
                  Part C--Monitored Retrievable Storage
 
Sec. 10162. Authorization of monitored retrievable storage


(a) Nullification of Oak Ridge siting proposal

    The proposal of the Secretary (EC-1022, 100th Congress) to locate a 
monitored retrievable storage facility at a site on the Clinch River in 
the Roane County portion of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with alternative sites 
on the Oak Ridge Reservation of the Department of Energy and on the 
former site of a proposed nuclear powerplant in Hartsville, Tennessee, 
is annulled and revoked. In carrying out the provisions of sections 
10164 and 10165 of this title, the Secretary shall make no presumption 
or preference to such sites by reason of their previous selection.

(b) Authorization

    The Secretary is authorized to site, construct, and operate one 
monitored retrievable storage facility subject to the conditions 
described in sections 10163 through 10169 of this title.

(Pub. L. 97-425, title I, Sec. 142, as added Pub. L. 100-202, 
Sec. 101(d) [title III, Sec. 300], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329-104, 
1329-121; Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5021, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 
1330-232.)

                          Codification

    Pub. L. 100-202 and Pub. L. 100-203 added identical sections.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 10165, 10168 of this title.
