Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 2.djvu/804

 96 STAT. 2166

Consultation and public hearing results. Comprehensive monitoring plan.

Assessment, copy to congressional committees. Recommendation to Congress. Ocean dumping permit, restricted issuance.

"Resolution."

PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983

"(D) an analysis of the resulting environmental and economic conditions if the containers fail to contain the radioactive waste material when initially deposited at the specific site; "(E) a plan for the removal or containment of the disposed nuclear material if the container leaks or decomposes; "(F) a determination by each affected State whether the proposed action is consistent with its approved Coastal Zone Management Program; "(G) an analysis of the economic impact upon other users of marine resources; "(H) alternatives to the proposed action; "(I) comments and results of consultation with State officials and public hearings held in the coastal States that are nearest to the affected areas; "(J) a comprehensive monitoring plan to be carried out by the applicant to determine the full effect of the disposal on the marine environment, living resources, or human health, which plan shall include, but not be limited to, the monitoring of exterior container radiation samples, the taking of water and sediment samples, and fish and benthic animal samples, adjacent to the containers, and the acquisition of such other information as the Administrator may require; and "(K) such other information which the Administrator may require in order to determine the full effects of such disposal. "(2) The Administrator shall include, in any permit to which paragraph (1) applies, such terms and conditions as may be necessary to ensure that the monitoring plan required under paragraph (1)(J) is fully implemented, including the analysis by the Administrator of the samples required to be taken under the plan. "(3) The Administrator shall submit a copy of the assessment prepared under paragraph (1) with respect to any permit to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate. "(4)(A) Upon a determination by the Administrator that a permit to which this subsection applies should be issued, the Administrator shall transmit such a recommendation to the House of Representatives and the Senate. "(B) No permit may be issued by the Administrator under this Act for the disposal of radioactive materials in the ocean unless the Congress, by approval of a resolution described in paragraph (D) within 90 days of continuous session of the Congress beginning on the date after the date of receipt by the Senate and the House of Representatives of such recommendation, authorizes the Administrator to grant a permit to dispose of radioactive material under this Act. "(C) For purposes of this subsection— "(1) continuity of session of the Congress is broken only by an adiournment sine die; '(2) 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 90 day calendar period. "(D) For the purposes of this subsection, the term 'resolution' means a joint resolution, the resolving clause of which is as follows: 'That the House of Representatives and the Senate approve and authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a permit under the Marine Protection, Research,

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