Nuclear Waste Terrorist Threat Assessment and Protection Act
Latest action · Dec 10, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 14, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires that the plan: (1) include a comprehensive analysis of the safety and vulnerability of the Project to terrorism; (2) address specified types of attacks; (3) give special emphasis to addressing the use of nuclear waste as a radiological weapon, the use of specified technologies, and sabotage or theft of high-level nuclear waste; and (4) include a comprehensive strategy for defending against terrorism and an analysis of the economic, public health, and environmental costs and impacts of implementing the plan.
Directs: (1) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate the development and implementation of a comprehensive interagency plan; and (2) the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and FEMA to enter into appropriate arrangements with the National Research Council for technical review of the plans and to report to Congress on the potential liability costs and damages resulting from terrorism against the Project.
Prohibits the Secretary of Energy from making a positive recommendation regarding, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from issuing a license for, a Yucca Mountain repository unless specified conditions are met, including that public hearings have been held for affected populations and the Secretary has certified that the Project is not vulnerable to terrorism.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 16, 2001 to Sep 9, 2002.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Nov 16, 2001 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Nov 16, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Dec 6, 2001 | |
| D-TX | Martin Frost | Dec 6, 2001 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Feb 5, 2002 | |
| R-NV | Jim Gibbons | Feb 5, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Sep 9, 2002 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Nov 15, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
- Nov 15, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
- Nov 15, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
- Nov 15, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Air routes
- Airspace (Law)
- Antitank missiles
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Bombings
- Computer simulation
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- EBB Terrorism
- Economic impact statements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric power production
- Emergency Management
- Energy
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Evacuation of civilians
- Explosives
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Health
- Identification of criminals
- Infrastructure
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Larceny
- Law
- Liability for nuclear damages
- Licenses
- Nevada
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear weapons
- Public health
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public meetings of administrative bodies
- Radioactive fallout
- Radioactive pollution
- Radioactive wastes
- Risk assessment
- Sabotage
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Storage
- Terrorism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation of hazardous substances
- Transportation workers
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Weather
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