Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 2.djvu/768

 99 STAT. 1878

42 USC 2021.

Prohibition.

Research and development.

42 USC 2021b note.

Prohibition. Regulation. Prohibition. Regulation.

PUBLIC LAW 99-240—JAN. 15, 1986

"(1) Abrogate or limit the applicability of any act of Congress or diminish or otherwise impair the jurisdiction of any federal agency expressly conferred thereon by the Congress. "(2) Abrogate or limit the regulatory responsibility and authority of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of an agreement state under Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 in which a regional facility is located. "(3) Make inapplicable to any person or circumstance any other law of a party state which is not inconsistent with this compact. "(4) Make unlawful the continued development and operation of any facility already licensed for development or operation on the date this compact becomes effective, except that any such facility shall comply with Article 3, Article 4, and Article 5 and shall be subject to any action lawfully taken pursuant thereto. "(5) Prohibit any storage or treatment of waste by the generator on its own premises. "(6) Affect any judicial or administrative proceeding pending on the effective date of this compact. "(7) Alter the relations between, and the respective internal responsibilities of, the government of a party state and its subdivisions. "(8) Affect the generation, treatment, storage, or disposal of waste generated by the atomic energy defense activities of the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy or federal research and development activities as defined in Public Law 96-573. "(9) Affect the rights and powers of any party state and its political subdivisions to regulate and license any facility within its borders or to affect the rights and powers of any party state and its political subdivisions to tax or impose fees on the wgiste managed at any facility within its borders. "B. No party shall pass any law or adopt any regulation which is inconsistent with this compact. To do so may jeopardize the membership status of the party state. "C. Upon formation of the compact no law or regulation of a party state or of any subdivision or instrumentality thereof may be applied so as to restrict or make more inconvenient access to any regional facility by the generators of another party state than for the generators of the state where the facility is situated. "D. Restrictions of waste management of regional facilities pursuant to Article 4 shall be enforceable as a matter of state law. 'ARTICLE 7 ELIGIBLE PARTIES; WITHDRAWAL; REVOCATION; ENTRY INTO FORCE; TERMINATION

Alabama. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. North earolina. South earolina. Tennesee. Virginia.

"A. This compact shall have as initially eligible parties the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. "B, Any state not expressly declared eligible to become a party state to this compact in Section (A) of this Article may petition the Commission, once constituted, to be declared eligible. The Commission may establish such conditions as it deems necessary and appropriate to be met by a state wishing to become eligible to become a party state to this compact pursuant to such provisions of this

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