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[CITE: 42USC5847]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 73--DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES
 
  SUBCHAPTER II--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION; NUCLEAR WHISTLEBLOWER 
                               PROTECTION
 
Sec. 5847. Nuclear energy center site survey

    (a)(1) \1\ The Commission is authorized and directed to make or 
cause to be made under its direction, a national survey, which shall 
include consideration of each of the existing or future electric 
reliability regions, or other appropriate regional areas, to locate and 
identify possible nuclear energy center sites. This survey shall be 
conducted in cooperation with other interested Federal, State, and local 
agencies, and the views of interested persons, including electric 
utilities, citizens' groups, and others, shall be solicited and 
considered.
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    \1\ So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.
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    (2) For purposes of this section, the term ``nuclear energy center 
site'' means any site, including a site not restricted to land, large 
enough to support utility operations or other elements of the total 
nuclear fuel cycle, or both including, if appropriate, nuclear fuel 
reprocessing facilities, nuclear fuel fabrication plants, retrievable 
nuclear waste storage facilities, and unranium \2\ enrichment 
facilities.
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    \2\ So in original. Probably should be ``uranium''.
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    (3) The survey shall include--
        (a) a regional evaluation of natural resources, including land, 
    air, and water resources, available for use in connection with 
    nuclear energy center sites; estimates of future electric power 
    requirements that can be served by each nuclear energy center site; 
    an assessment of the economic impact of each nuclear energy site; 
    and consideration of any other relevant factors, including but not 
    limited to population distribution, proximity to electric load 
    centers and to other elements of the fuel cycle, transmission line 
    rights-of-way, and the availability of other fuel resources;
        (b) an evaluation of the environmental impact likely to result 
    from construction and operation of such nuclear energy centers, 
    including an evaluation whether such nuclear energy centers will 
    result in greater or lesser environmental impact than separate 
    siting of the reactors and/or fuel cycle facilities; and
        (c) consideration of the use of federally owned property and 
    other property designated for public use, but excluding national 
    parks, national forests, national wilderness areas, and national 
    historic monuments.

    (4) A report of the results of the survey shall be published and 
transmitted to the Congress and the Council on Environmental Quality not 
later than one year from October 11, 1974, and shall be made available 
to the public, and shall be updated from time to time thereafter as the 
Commission, in its discretion, deems advisable. The report shall include 
the Commission's evaluation of the results of the survey and any 
conclusions and recommendations, including recommendations for 
legislation, which the Commission may have concerning the feasibility 
and practicality of locating nuclear power reactors and/or other 
elements of the nuclear fuel cycle on nuclear energy center sites. The 
Commission is authorized to adopt policies which will encourage the 
location of nuclear power reactors and related fuel cycle facilities on 
nuclear energy center sites insofar as practicable.

(Pub. L. 93-438, title II, Sec. 207, Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1247.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of certain functions from Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
to Chairman thereof, see Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1980, 45 F.R. 40561, 94 
Stat. 3585, set out as a note under section 5841 of this title.
