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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-604—NOV. 8, 1978

92 STAT. 3033

of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. (e) The Commission, in cooperation with the Secretary, shall ensure that any relevant information, other than trade secrets and other proprietary information otherwise exempted from mandatory disclosure under any other provision of law, obtained from the conduct of each of the remedial actions authorized by this title and the subsequent perpetual care of those residual radioactive materials is documented systematically, and made publicly available conveniently for use. ACTIVE OPERATIONS; L I A B I L I T Y FOR R E M E D I A L ACTION

SEC. 115. (a) No amount may be expended under this title with respect to any site licensed by the Commission under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or by a State as permitted under section 274 of such Act at which production of any uranium product from ores (other than from residual radioactive materials) takes place. (b) In the case of each processing site designated under this title, 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 the date of the enactment of this Act 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 the date of the enactment of this Act. 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.

42 USC 7925. 42 USC 2011 note, ^^ USC 2021. Study,

TITLE II—URANIUM MILL TAILINGS LICENSING AND REGULATION DEFINITION SEC. 201. Section lie. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, is amended 42 USC 2014. to read as follows: "e. The term 'byproduct material' means (1) any radioactive mate- "Byproduct rial (except special nuclear material) yielded in or made radioactive material." by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material, and (2) the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content." CUSTODY OP DISPOSAL SITE

SEC. 202. (a) Chapter 8 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, is amended by adding the following new section at the end thereof: "SEC. 83. OWNERSHIP AND CUSTODY or CERTAIN BYPRODUCT MATERIAL AND DISPOSAL SITES.—

42 USC 2113.

"a. Any license issued or renewed after the effective date of this section under section 62 or section 81 for any activity which results 42 USC 2002, in the production of any byproduct material, as defined in section lie. 2111. Supra.

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