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[CITE: 42USC2238]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
          CHAPTER 23--DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
 
                        Division A--Atomic Energy
 
       SUBCHAPTER XV--JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
 
Sec. 2238. Continued operation of facilities

    Whenever the Commission finds that the public convenience and 
necessity or the production program of the Commission requires continued 
operation of a production facility or utilization facility the license 
for which has been revoked pursuant to section 2236 of this title, the 
Commission may, after consultation with the appropriate regulatory 
agency, State or Federal, having jurisdiction, order that possession be 
taken of and such facility be operated for such period of time as the 
public convenience and necessity or the production program of the 
Commission may, in the judgment of the Commission, require, or until a 
license for the operation of the facility shall become effective. Just 
compensation shall be paid for the use of the facility.

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, Sec. 188, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 
1073, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 955; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102-486, title 
IX, Sec. 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by 
sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also Transfer of Functions 
notes set out under those sections.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2239 of this title.
