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[CITE: 42USC10221]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 108--NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
 
     SUBCHAPTER III--OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIOACTIVE WASTE
 
Sec. 10221. Mission plan


(a) Contents of mission plan

    The Secretary shall prepare a comprehensive report, to be known as 
the mission plan, which shall provide an informational basis sufficient 
to permit informed decisions to be made in carrying out the repository 
program and the research, development, and demonstration programs 
required under this chapter. The mission plan shall include--
        (1) an identification of the primary scientific, engineering, 
    and technical information, including any necessary demonstration of 
    engineering or systems integration, with respect to the siting and 
    construction of a test and evaluation facility and repositories;
        (2) an identification of any information described in paragraph 
    (1) that is not available because of any unresolved scientific, 
    engineering, or technical questions, or undemonstrated engineering 
    or systems integration, a schedule including specific major 
    milestones for the research, development, and technology 
    demonstration program required under this chapter and any additional 
    activities to be undertaken to provide such information, a schedule 
    for the activities necessary to achieve important programmatic 
    milestones, and an estimate of the costs required to carry out such 
    research, development, and demonstration programs;
        (3) an evaluation of financial, political, legal, or 
    institutional problems that may impede the implementation of this 
    chapter, the plans of the Secretary to resolve such problems, and 
    recommendations for any necessary legislation to resolve such 
    problems;
        (4) any comments of the Secretary with respect to the purpose 
    and program of the test and evaluation facility;
        (5) a discussion of the significant results of research and 
    development programs conducted and the implications for each of the 
    different geologic media under consideration for the siting of 
    repositories, and, on the basis of such information, a comparison of 
    the advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of such 
    media for repository sites;
        (6) the guidelines issued under section 10132(a) of this title;
        (7) a description of known sites at which site characterization 
    activities should be undertaken, a description of such siting 
    characterization activities, including the extent of planned 
    excavations, plans for onsite testing with radioactive or 
    nonradioactive material, plans for any investigations activities 
    which may affect the capability of any such site to isolate high-
    level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel, plans to control any 
    adverse, safety-related impacts from such site characterization 
    activities, and plans for the decontamination and decommissioning of 
    such site if it is determined unsuitable for licensing as a 
    repository;
        (8) an identification of the process for solidifying high-level 
    radioactive waste or packaging spent nuclear fuel, including a 
    summary and analysis of the data to support the selection of the 
    solidification process and packaging techniques, an analysis of the 
    requirements for the number of solidification packaging facilities 
    needed, a description of the state of the art for the materials 
    proposed to be used in packaging such waste or spent fuel and the 
    availability of such materials including impacts on strategic 
    supplies and any requirements for new or reactivated facilities to 
    produce any such materials needed, and a description of a plan, and 
    the schedule for implementing such plan, for an aggressive research 
    and development program to provide when needed a high-integrity 
    disposal package at a reasonable price;
        (9) an estimate of (A) the total repository capacity required to 
    safely accommodate the disposal of all high-level radioactive waste 
    and spent nuclear fuel expected to be generated through December 31, 
    2020, in the event that no commercial reprocessing of spent nuclear 
    fuel occurs, as well as the repository capacity that will be 
    required if such reprocessing does occur; (B) the number and type of 
    repositories required to be constructed to provide such disposal 
    capacity; (C) a schedule for the construction of such repositories; 
    and (D) an estimate of the period during which each repository 
    listed in such schedule will be accepting high-level radioactive 
    waste or spent nuclear fuel for disposal;
        (10) an estimate, on an annual basis, of the costs required (A) 
    to construct and operate the repositories anticipated to be needed 
    under paragraph (9) based on each of the assumptions referred to in 
    such paragraph; (B) to construct and operate a test and evaluation 
    facility, or any other facilities, other than repositories described 
    in subparagraph (A), determined to be necessary; and (C) to carry 
    out any other activities under this chapter; and
        (11) an identification of the possible adverse economic and 
    other impacts to the State or Indian tribe involved that may arise 
    from the development of a test and evaluation facility or repository 
    at a site.

(b) Submission of mission plan

    (1) Not later than 15 months after January 7, 1983, the Secretary 
shall submit a draft mission plan to the States, the affected Indian 
tribes, the Commission, and other Government agencies as the Secretary 
deems appropriate for their comments.
    (2) In preparing any comments on the mission plan, such agencies 
shall specify with precision any objections that they may have. Upon 
submission of the mission plan to such agencies, the Secretary shall 
publish a notice in the Federal Register of the submission of the 
mission plan and of its availability for public inspection, and, upon 
receipt of any comments of such agencies respecting the mission plan, 
the Secretary shall publish a notice in the Federal Register of the 
receipt of comments and of the availability of the comments for public 
inspection. If the Secretary does not revise the mission plan to meet 
objections specified in such comments, the Secretary shall publish in 
the Federal Register a detailed statement for not so revising the 
mission plan.
    (3) The Secretary, after reviewing any other comments made by such 
agencies and revising the mission plan to the extent that the Secretary 
may consider to be appropriate, shall submit the mission plan to the 
appropriate committees of the Congress not later than 17 months after 
January 7, 1983. The mission plan shall be used by the Secretary at the 
end of the first period of 30 calendar days (not including any day on 
which either House of Congress is not in session because of adjournment 
of more than 3 calendar days to a day certain) following receipt of the 
mission plan by the Congress.

(Pub. L. 97-425, title III, Sec. 301, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2255.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 10196, 10197 of this title.
