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[CITE: 42USC10203]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 108--NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION REGARDING 
     DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
 
Sec. 10203. Technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in 
        field of spent fuel storage and disposal
        

(a) Statement of policy

    It shall be the policy of the United States to cooperate with and 
provide technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in the field 
of spent fuel storage and disposal.

(b) Publication of joint notice; update

    (1) Within 90 days of January 7, 1983, the Secretary and the 
Commission shall publish a joint notice in the Federal Register stating 
that the United States is prepared to cooperate with and provide 
technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in the fields of at-
reactor spent fuel storage; away-from-reactor spent fuel storage; 
monitored, retrievable spent fuel storage; geologic disposal of spent 
fuel; and the health, safety, and environmental regulation of such 
activities. The notice shall summarize the resources that can be made 
available for international cooperation and assistance in these fields 
through existing programs of the Department and the Commission, 
including the availability of: (i) data from past or ongoing research 
and development projects; (ii) consultations with expert Department or 
Commission personnel or contractors; and (iii) liaison with private 
business entities and organizations working in these fields.
    (2) The joint notice described in the preceding subparagraph shall 
be updated and reissued annually for 5 succeeding years.

(c) Notification to non-nuclear weapon states; expressions of interest

    Following publication of the annual joint notice referred to in 
paragraph (2), the Secretary of State shall inform the governments of 
non-nuclear weapon states and, as feasible, the organizations operating 
nuclear powerplants in such states, that the United States is prepared 
to cooperate with and provide technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon 
states in the fields of spent fuel storage and disposal, as set forth in 
the joint notice. The Secretary of State shall also solicit expressions 
of interest from non-nuclear weapon state governments and non-nuclear 
weapon state nuclear power reactor operators concerning their 
participation in expanded United States cooperation and technical 
assistance programs in these fields. The Secretary of State shall 
transmit any such expressions of interest to the Department and the 
Commission.

(d) Funding requests

    With his budget presentation materials for the Department and the 
Commission for fiscal years 1984 through 1989, the President shall 
include funding requests for an expanded program of cooperation and 
technical assistance with non-nuclear weapon states in the fields of 
spent fuel storage and disposal as appropriate in light of expressions 
of interest in such cooperation and assistance on the part of non-
nuclear weapon state governments and non-nuclear weapon state nuclear 
power reactor operators.

(e) ``Non-nuclear weapon state'' defined

    For the purposes of this subsection,\1\ the term ``non-nuclear 
weapon state'' shall have the same meaning as that set forth in article 
IX of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (21 
U.S.C.\2\ 438).
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    \2\ So in original. Probably should be ``UST''.
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(f) Unauthorized actions

    Nothing in this subsection \1\ shall authorize the Department or the 
Commission to take any action not authorized under existing law.

(Pub. L. 97-425, title II, Sec. 223, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2254.)

                       References in Text

    The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, referred to 
in subsec. (e), is set out in 21 UST 483; TIAS 6839.
