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 PUBLIC LAW 97-425—JAN. 7, 1983

96 STAT. 2241

title 31, United States Code, and the purposes for which securities Ante, p. 937. may be issued under such Act are extended to include any purchase of such obligations. The Secretary of the Treasury may at any time sell any of the obligations acquired by him under this paragraph. All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the Secretary of the Treasury of obligations under this paragraph shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States. (6) Any appropriations made available to the Storage Fund for any Interest purpose described in subsection (d) shall be repaid into the general payments. fund of the Treasury, together with interest from the date of availability of the appropriations until the date of repayment. Such interest shall be paid on the cumulative amount of appropriations available to the Storage Fund, less the average undisbursed cash balance in the Storage Fund account during the fiscal year involved. The rate of such interest shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury taking into consideration the average market yield during the month preceding each fiscal year on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturity. Interest Deferral. payments may be deferred with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but any interest pa3nnents so deferred shall themselves bear interest. SEC. 137. (a) TRANSPORTATION.—(1) Transportation of spent 42 USC 10157. nuclear fuel under section 136(a) shall be subject to licensing and regulation by the Commission and by the Secretary of Transportation as provided for transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel under existing law. (2) The Secretary, in providing for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel under this Act, shall utilize by contract private industry to the fullest extent possible in each aspect of such transportation. The Secretary shall use direct Federal services for such transportation only upon a determination of the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary, that private industry is unable or unwilling to provide such transportation services at reasonable cost. SUBTITLE C—MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE 42 USC 10161. SEC. 141. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— (1) long-term storage of high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel in monitored retrievable storage facilities is an option for providing safe and reliable management of such waste or spent fuel; (2) the executive branch and the Congress should proceed as expeditiously as possible to consider fully a proposal for construction of one or more monitored retrievable storage facilities to provide such long-term storage; (3) the Federal Government has the responsibility to ensure that site-specific designs for such facilities are available as provided in this section; (4) the generators and owners of the high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel to be stored in such facilities have the responsibility to pay the costs of the long-term storage of such waste and spent fuel; and (5) disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in a repository developed under this Act should proceed

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