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[CITE: 42USC7925]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
           CHAPTER 88--URANIUM MILL TAILINGS RADIATION CONTROL
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--REMEDIAL ACTION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 7925. Active operations; liability for remedial action

    (a) No amount may be expended under this subchapter with respect to 
any site licensed by the Commission under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 
[42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.] or by a State as permitted under section 274 of 
such Act [42 U.S.C. 2021] at which production of any uranium product 
from ores (other than from residual radioactive materials) takes place. 
This subsection does not prohibit the disposal of residual radioactive 
material from a processing site under this subchapter at a site licensed 
under title II or the expenditure of funds under this subchapter for 
such disposal.
    (b) In the case of each processing site designated under this 
subchapter, the Attorney General shall conduct a study to determine the 
identity and legal responsibility which any person (other than the 
United States, a State, or Indian tribe) who owned or operated or 
controlled (as determined by the Attorney General) such site before 
November 8, 1978, may have under any law or rule of law for reclamation 
or other remedial action with respect to such site. The Attorney General 
shall publish the results of such study, and provide copies thereof to 
the Congress, as promptly as practicable following November 8, 1978. The 
Attorney General, based on such study, shall, to the extent he deems it 
appropriate and in the public interest, take such action under any 
provision of law in effect when uranium was produced at such site to 
require payment by such person of all or any part of the costs incurred 
by the United States for such remedial action for which he determines 
such person is liable.

(Pub. L. 95-604, title I, Sec. 115, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3033; Pub. L. 
104-259, Sec. 4(c), Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3174.)

                       References in Text

    The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, referred to in subsec. (a), is act 
Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, Sec. 1, 
68 Stat. 921, and amended, which is classified generally to chapter 23 
(Sec. 2011 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of this 
title and Tables.
    Title II, referred to in subsec. (a), is title II (Secs. 201-209) of 
Pub. L. 95-604, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3033, as amended, which enacted 
sections 2022, 2113, 2114 of this title, amended sections 2014, 2021, 
2111, and 2201 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes 
under sections 2014, 2021, and 2113 of this title. For complete 
classification of title II to the Code, see Tables.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-259 inserted at end ``This subsection 
does not prohibit the disposal of residual radioactive material from a 
processing site under this subchapter at a site licensed under title II 
or the expenditure of funds under this subchapter for such disposal.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7942 of this title.
