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 102 STAT. 1072

Claims.

Claims.

PUBLIC LAW 100-408—AUG. 20, 1988

nuclear incident may exceed the applicable amount of aggregate public liability under subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of subsection e. (1) the President shall submit to the Congress— "(A) an estimate of the a g g r ^ a t e dollar value of personal injuries and property damage that arises from the nuclear incident and exceeds the amount of aggregate public liability under subsection e. (1); "(B) recommendations for additional sources of funds to pay claims exceeding the applicable amount of a g g r ^ a t e public liability under subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of subsection e. (1), which recommendations shall consider a broad range of possible sources of funds (including possible revenue measures on the sector of the economy, or on any other class, to which such revenue measures might be applied); "(C) 1 or more compensation plans, that either individually or collectively shall provide for full and prompt compensation for all valid claims and contain a recommendation or recommendations as to the relief to be provided, including any recommendations that funds be allocated or set aside for the pa}ntnent of claims that may arise as a result of latent injuries that may not be discovered untO a later date; and "(D) any additional l^islative authorities necessary to implement such compensation plan or plans. "(3)(A) Any compensation plan transmitted to the 0)ngress pursuant to paragraph (2) shall bear an identification number and shall be transmitted to both Houses of 0>ngress on the same day and to each House while it is in session. "(B) The provisions of paragraphs (4) through (6) shall apply with respect to consideration in the Senate of any compensation plan transmitted to the Senate pursuant to paragraph (2). "(4) No such compensation plan may be considered approved for purposes of subsection 170 e. (2) unless between the date of transmittal and the end of the first period of sixty calendar days of continuous session of Congress after the date on which such action is transmitted to the Senate, the Senate passes a resolution described in paragraph 6 of this suteection. ' (5) For the purpose of paragraph (4) of this subsection— "(A) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die; and "(B) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the sixty-day calendar period. "(6)(A) This paragraph is enacted— "(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of the Senate, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the Senate in the case of resolutions described by subparagraph (B) and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent therewith; and "(ii) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change the rules at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the Senate. "(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'resolution' means only a joint resolution of the Congress the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 'That the approves the compensation plan numbered submitted to the Congress on, 19.', the first blank space therein being

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