S 2325 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Dry Cask Storage Act of 2014

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 13, 2014 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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.

  1. IntroducedMay 13, 2014
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Dry Cask Storage Act of 2014 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require each licensee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to submit a plan for: (1) transfer (including on-going additional transfers) to spent nuclear fuel dry casks of any spent nuclear fuel stored by the licensee for at least seven years in spent nuclear fuel pools, and (2) configuration of the remaining spent nuclear fuel in the pool in a manner that minimizes the chance of a fire if there is a loss of water in the pool.

Requires the NRC to approve or disapprove the plan within 90 days after its submission.

Authorizes the NRC to make a grant to any licensee with an approved plan to assist in the cost of transferring spent nuclear fuel to dry casks under the plan.

Requires the emergency planning zone applicable to each civilian nuclear power reactor to be at least 10 miles in radius until all spent nuclear fuel at the reactor has been transferred to dry casks.

Directs the NRC to expand to 50 miles in radius the emergency planning zone applicable to each reactor not in compliance with an approved plan. Makes the licensee responsible for all coasts associated with expansion.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer annually to the NRC, to pay the costs of the grants program, 10% of the interest generated during the preceding fiscal year from investments of the Nuclear Waste Fund.

Cosponsors 3

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 13, 2014 to Jun 18, 2014, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CABarbara BoxerOriginalMay 13, 2014
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalMay 13, 2014
D-NYKirsten E. GillibrandJun 18, 2014

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 13, 2014Introduced in Senate
  2. May 13, 2014Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. May 13, 2014Introduced in Senate

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