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[CITE: 42USC10242]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 108--NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IV--NUCLEAR WASTE NEGOTIATOR
 
Sec. 10242. Office of Nuclear Waste Negotiator


(a) Establishment

    There is established the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator that 
shall be an independent establishment in the executive branch.

(b) Nuclear Waste Negotiator

    (1) The Office shall be headed by a Nuclear Waste Negotiator who 
shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate. The Negotiator shall hold office at the pleasure of the 
President, and shall be compensated at the rate provided for level III 
of the Executive Schedule in section 5314 of title 5.
    (2) The Negotiator shall attempt to find a State or Indian tribe 
willing to host a repository or monitored retrievable storage facility 
at a technically qualified site on reasonable terms and shall negotiate 
with any State or Indian tribe which expresses an interest in hosting a 
repository or monitored retrievable storage facility.

(Pub. L. 97-425, title IV, Sec. 402, as added Pub. L. 100-202, 
Sec. 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329-104, 1329-121; 
Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5041, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-243; 
amended Pub. L. 100-507, Sec. 1, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2541.)

                          Codification

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


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-507 amended subsec. (a) generally. 
Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: ``There is established 
within the Executive Office of the President the Office of the Nuclear 
Waste Negotiator.''
