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[CITE: 48USC1491]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
         CHAPTER 10--TERRITORIAL PROVISIONS OF A GENERAL NATURE
 
Sec. 1491. License, permit, etc., for transportation for storage 
        or storage of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive 
        waste; prerequisites; applicability; ``territory or possession'' 
        defined
        
    (a) Prior to the granting of any license, permit, or other 
authorization or permission by any agency or instrumentality of the 
United States to any person for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel 
or high-level radioactive waste for interim, long-term, or permanent 
storage to or for the storage of such fuel or waste on any territory or 
possession of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior is 
directed to transmit to the Congress a detailed report on the proposed 
transportation or storage plan, and no such license, permit, or other 
authorization or permission may be granted nor may any such 
transportation or storage occur unless the proposed transportation or 
storage plan has been specifically authorized by Act of Congress: 
Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to the 
cleanup and rehabilitation of Bikini and Enewetak Atolls.
    (b) For the purpose of this section the words ``territory or 
possession'' include the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and any 
area not within the boundaries of the several States over which the 
United States claims or exercises sovereignty.

(Pub. L. 96-205, title VI, Sec. 605, Mar. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 90.)

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 42 section 10103.
