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Sec. 131 ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954 68
resentatives 1 and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate of such waiver and the justification therefor. The processing of
any subsequent arrangement proposed and filed as of the date of
enactment of this section 2 shall not be delayed pending the devel-
opment and establishment of procedures to implement the require-
ments of this section.
d. Nothing in this section is intended to prohibit, permanently
or unconditionally, the reprocessing of spent fuel owned by a for-
eign nation which fuel has been supplied by the United States, to
preclude the United States from full participation in the Inter-
national Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation provided for in section 105
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978; to in any way limit
the presentation or consideration in that evaluation of any nuclear
fuel cycle by the United States or any other participation; nor to
prejudice open and objective consideration of the results of the
evaluation.
e. Notwithstanding subsection 402(d) of the Department of En-
ergy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), the Secretary of Energy,
and not the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, shall have
sole jurisdiction within the Department of Energy over any matter
arising from any function of the Secretary of Energy in this section.
f. (1) With regard to any subsequent arrangement under sub-
section a. (2) (E) (for the storage or disposition of irradiated fuel
elements), where such arrangement involves a direct or indirect
commitment of the United States for the storage or other disposi-
tion, interim or permanent, of any foreign spent nuclear fuel in the
United States, the Secretary of Energy may not enter into any such
subsequent arrangements, unless:
(A)(i) Such commitment of the United States has been sub-
mitted to the Congress for a period of sixty days of continuous
session (as defined in subsection 130 g. of this Act) and has
been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of
the Senate, but any such commitment shall not become effec-
tive if during such sixty-day period the Congress adopts a con-
current resolution stating in substance that it does not favor
the commitment, any such commitment to be considered pursu-
ant to the procedures set forth in section 130 of this Act for
the consideration of Presidential submissions; or (ii) if the
President has submitted a detailed generic plan for such dis-
position or storage in the United States to the Congress for a
period of sixty days of continuous session (as defined in sub-
section 130 g. of this Act), which plan has been referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and has
not been disapproved during such sixty-day period by the adop-
tion of a concurrent resolution stating in substance that Con-
gress does not favor the plan; and the commitment is subject
to the terms of an effective plan. Any such plan shall be con-
The name of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives was
changed to Committee on Foreign Affairs on Feb. 5, 1979, by House Resolution 89, 96th Con-
gress. The name was also changed to the Committee on International Relations at the beginning
of the 104th Congress.
2 The date of enactment was March 10, 1978.
November 13, 1998
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United States. Congress. Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [As Amended Through P.L. 105-394, November 13, 1998]: An Act for the development and control of atomic energy, text, November 13, 1998; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11950/m1/68/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .