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[CITE: 42USC7915]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
           CHAPTER 88--URANIUM MILL TAILINGS RADIATION CONTROL
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--REMEDIAL ACTION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 7915. Indian tribe cooperative agreements


(a) Authority of Secretary; priorities for remedial action; use of 
        Indian personnel; terms and conditions

    After notifying the Indian tribe of the designation pursuant to 
section 7912 of this title, the Secretary, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enter into a cooperative 
agreement, subject to section 7923 of this title, with any Indian tribe 
to perform remedial action at a designated processing site located on 
land of such Indian tribe. The Secretary shall, to the greatest extent 
practicable, enter into such agreements and carry out such remedial 
actions in accordance with the priorities established by him under 
section 7912 of this title. In performing any remedial action under this 
section and in carrying out any continued monitoring or maintenance 
respecting residual radioactive materials associated with any site 
subject to a cooperative agreement under this section, the Secretary 
shall make full use of any qualified members of Indian tribes resident 
in the vicinity of any such site. Each such agreement shall contain such 
terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate and consistent 
with the purposes of this chapter. Such terms and conditions shall 
require the following:
        (1) The Indian tribe and any person holding any interest in such 
    land shall execute a waiver (A) releasing the United States of any 
    liability or claim thereof by such tribe or person concerning such 
    remedial action and (B) holding the United States harmless against 
    any claim arising out of the performance of any such remedial 
    action.
        (2) The remedial action shall be selected and performed in 
    accordance with section 7918 of this title by the Secretary or such 
    person as he may designate.
        (3) The Secretary, the Commission, and the Administrator and 
    their authorized representatives shall have a permanent right of 
    entry at any time to inspect such processing site in furtherance of 
    the provisions of this subchapter, to carry out such agreement, and 
    to enforce any rules prescribed under this chapter.

Each agreement under this section shall take effect only upon 
concurrence of the Commission with the terms and conditions thereof.

(b) Disposition and stabilization sites for residual radioactive 
        materials; transfer to Secretary of the Interior

    When the Secretary with the concurrence of the Commission determines 
removal of residual radioactive materials from a processing site on 
lands described in subsection (a) of this section to be appropriate, he 
shall provide, consistent with other applicable provisions of law, a 
site or sites for the permanent disposition and stabilization in a safe 
and environmentally sound manner of such residual radioactive materials. 
Such materials shall be transferred to the Secretary (without payment 
therefor by the Secretary) and permanently retained and maintained by 
the Secretary under the conditions established in a license issued by 
the Commission, subject to section 7914(f)(2) and (h) of this title.

(Pub. L. 95-604, title I, Sec. 105, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3028.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7913 of this title.
