section 10163 of this titleAfter the MRS Commission submits its report to the Congress under , the Secretary may conduct a survey and evaluation of potentially suitable sites for a monitored retrievable storage facility. In conducting such survey and evaluation, the Secretary shall consider the extent to which siting a monitored retrievable storage facility at each site surveyed would—
enhance the reliability and flexibility of the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste established under this chapter;
minimize the impacts of transportation and handling of such fuel and waste;
provide for public confidence in the ability of such system to safely dispose of the fuel and waste;
impose minimal adverse effects on the local community and the local environment;
provide a high probability that the facility will meet applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements in a timely fashion;
provide such other benefits to the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste as the Secretary deems appropriate; and
unduly burden a State in which significant volumes of high-level radioactive waste resulting from atomic energy defense activities are stored.
Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 144Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300]101 Stat. 1329–104 Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5021101 Stat. 1330–234 (, as added , , , 1329–121; , , .)
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Codification
Pub. L. 100–202Pub. L. 100–203 and added identical sections.