Congress 109 - HR 755 - To provide for the external regulation of nuclear safety and occupational safety and health responsibilities at any nonmilitary energy laboratory owned or operated by the Department of Energy.

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Administrative procedure Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Cost accounting Department of Energy Department of Labor Economics and Public Finance Energy Environmental Protection Executive reorganization Federal employees Fissionable materials Government contractors Government Operations and Politics Independent regulatory commissions Judicial review Labor and Employment Laboratories Law Liability (Law) Licenses Nuclear energy Nuclear facilities Nuclear Regulatory Commission Occupational health and safety Radioisotopes Science, Technology, Communications

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Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), respectively, to assume specified responsibilities for nuclear safety and for occupational safety and health at nonmilitary energy laboratories owned or operated by the Department of Energy (DOE). Eliminates DOE's regulatory and enforcement authority with respect to such responsibilities assumed by NRC and OSHA. Makes such transfers of authority effective two years after enactment of this Act.

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Mar 24, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Mar 14, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Mar 10, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
Feb 10, 2005

Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 10, 2005

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