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[CITE: 42USC2297g-2]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
          CHAPTER 23--DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
 
            Division B--United States Enrichment Corporation
 
           SUBCHAPTER VII--DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING
 
Sec. 2297g-2. Department facilities


(a) Study by National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences shall conduct a study and provide 
recommendations for reducing costs associated with decontamination and 
decommissioning, and shall report its findings to the Congress within 3 
years after October 24, 1992. Such report shall include a determination 
of the decontamination and decommissioning required for each facility, 
shall identify alternative methods, using different technologies, shall 
include site-specific surveys of the actual contamination, and shall 
provide estimated costs of those activities.

(b) Payment of decontamination and decommissioning costs

    The costs of all decontamination and decommissioning activities of 
the Department shall be paid from the Fund until such time as the 
Secretary certifies and the Congress concurs, by law, that such 
activities are complete.

(c) Payment of remedial action costs

    The annual cost of remedial action at the Department's gaseous 
diffusion facilities shall be paid from the Fund to the extent the 
amount available in the Fund is sufficient. To the extent the amount in 
the Fund is insufficient, the Department shall be responsible for the 
cost of remedial action. No provision of this division may be construed 
to relieve in any way the responsibility or liability of the Department 
for remedial action under applicable Federal and State laws and 
regulations.

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title II, Sec. 1803, as added Pub. L. 102-486, 
title XI, Sec. 1101, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2954.)
