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51 records in 1985
European Union · European Commission · 31 December 1985
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1985
Amends the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission, on its own or upon application, to exempt from such Act a public utility holding company that has only one subsidiary company which is a natural gas public utility, if: (1) the operations of such subsidiary do not extend beyond the State in which it is organized and contiguous States; and (2) neither the holding company nor the subsidiary is engaged in retail residential or commercial plumbing, heating, electrical, air-conditioning, or related equipment installation or servicing.
European Union · EUR-Lex · 20 December 1985
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1985
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the transportation of any high level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel without a license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission). Sets forth the details of such license application, including emergency procedures in the event of a potential release of radioactive waste. Directs the Commission to prepare an environmental assessment detailing the basis of its decision to issue a nuclear waste transportation license prior to the issuance of such license. Sets forth the details of such assessment. Directs the Commission to impose shipping restrictions (based upon such environmental assessment) which will either minimize risk or enhance the potential for containment and cleanup in the event of accidental radioactive waste release. Directs the Department of Energy, the Commission, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to: (1) determine the emergency response capabilities of those States and Indian tribes whose territory is traversed by radioactive waste transportation routes; and (2) develop and exercise with such States and tribes an emergency response and mitigation plan within 12 months of a transportation license issuance date. Prohibits any shipments unless such plans are developed and periodically exercised. States that no Federal regulation shall preempt States and Indian tribes from imposing certain nuclear waste transportation regulations. Makes certain nuclear waste transportation restrictions inapplicable if the Commission certifies that compelling safety or national security reasons necessitate immediate nuclear waste transportation to another site.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1985
Hydrogen Research and Development Act - Title I: Hydrogen Production and Utilization - Directs the Secretary of Energy to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a comprehensive program management plan for a research and development program designed to permit the development of a domestic hydrogen fuel production capability within the shortest practicable time. Requires the Secretary to send the Congress annual reports which include any necessary plan modifications. Directs the Secretary to establish such program within the Department of Energy. Requires that the areas to be addressed in such program include production, liquefaction, transmission, distribution, storage, and utilization. Requires priority to be given to production techniques that use renewable energy sources as their primary energy sources. Requires the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive technology application plan which shall include: (1) the potential applications for the use of hydrogen; (2) technical market and economic readiness assessments for such potential applications; (3) an assessment of Government actions needed to develop such application; and (4) an analysis of the impact of such applications on domestic energy supplies. Requires the Secretary to consult with other Federal agencies and departments in carrying out this program. Requires the establishment of a Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel to advise the Secretary on the conduct of the hydrogen program. Requires the Panel to submit an annual report on the program to the Energy Research Advisory Board which shall subsequently report to the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title II: Hydrogen-Fueled Aircraft Research and Development - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a comprehensive program management plan for a research and development program for the development of a domestic hydrogen-fueled aircraft capability within the shortest practicable time. Requires the Administrator to transmit to the Congress annual reports which include any necessary modifications with respect to the plan. Requires the Administrator to establish such program within NASA and to prepare and transmit to the Congress a comprehensive flight demonstration plan which shall confirm the technical feasibility, economic viability, and safety of liquid hydrogen as a fuel for commercial transport aircraft. Provides that the research and development program under this title shall include, at a minimum, the development of the systems associated with the production, transportation, storage, and handling of liquid hydrogen for commercial aircraft application. Provides that the Administrator shall consult with other Federal agencies and departments in carrying out the program. Establishes a Hydrogen-Fueled Aircraft Advisory Committee to advise the Administrator on the programs established by this title. Requires the Committee to report annually to the Administrator on its activities and on the status of such programs. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate and the House of Representatives that the United States, Mexico, and Canada should establish a common economic bond of energy cooperation and that the President should invite the leaders of those countries to a summit meeting to discuss the energy needs of the countries, joint development of energy sources, and the establishment of a North American partnership between the countries.
Germany · German Bundestag · 11 December 1985
Aussprache auf Verlangen der Fraktion DIE GRÜNEN, unabhängig von einer Fragestunde
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that interstate natural gas pipelines should transport natural gas for any person, including residential and commercial users, and should do it on a non-discriminatory basis.
Germany · German Bundestag · 5 December 1985
Aussprache auf Verlangen der Fraktion DIE GRÜNEN, unabhängig von einer Fragestunde
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 December 1985
Aufforderung an die Landesregierung von Nordrhein-Westfalen, den Betrieb des Kraftwerkes Ibbenbüren zu unterbinden und eine Inbetriebnahme erst nach Einbau einer Entstickungsanlage zuzulassen, Sicherstellung der Beschäftigung der Arbeitnehmer des Ibbenbürener Bergwerks
Germany · German Bundestag · 25 November 1985
Rücknahme der für 1986 vorgesehenen Halbierung der Mittelansätze für die Förderung von Entwicklung und Innovation im Steinkohlebergbau und der vorgesehenen Kürzungen in der mittelfristigen Finanzplanung
Germany · German Bundestag · 25 November 1985
Rücknahme der für 1986 beschlossenen Kürzungen bei Zuschüssen für Investitionen im Steinkohlenbergbau, Ausbringung der Stillegungsprämien für Steinkohlenbergwerke in einem gesonderten Haushaltstitel
Germany · German Bundestag · 25 November 1985
Schaffung eines Haushaltstitels zur Förderung des Eindringens der Kohle in den Wärmemarkt, Beteiligung der Länder, Gewährung von Investitionszuschüssen für die Verbraucher
Germany · German Bundestag · 25 November 1985
Verlängerung des 1986 auslaufenden Fernwärmeausbauprogramms
Germany · German Bundestag · 25 November 1985
Streichung der Mittel für sicherheitstechnische Untersuchungen an der Wiederaufarbeitungsanlage Wackersdorf, Verwendung für Untersuchungen im Hinblick auf eine Konditionierungsanlage für abgebrannte Brennelemente (Endlagerung)
United States · United States Senate · 22 November 1985
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985
Motor Fuel Sales Competition Improvement Act of 1985 - Prohibits any oil producer or refiner from: (1) requiring any retail motor fuel dealer to purchase more than 70 percent of its monthly retail sales of motor fuel from such producer or refiner; or (2) prohibiting such a dealer from converting a fuel storage tank or dispenser for the sale of fuel supplied by another producer or refiner. Prohibits any retail motor fuel dealer at a service station displaying a name or other identifying symbol of a refiner or producer from selling fuel not provided by such refiner or producer without providing notice at the point of sale. Prohibits any large integrated refiner from operating any service station in the United States. Permits such refiner to own all or part of a service station, provided it does not engage in selling fuel at such service station through any employee, agent, or representative. Amends the Small Business Act to permit the Small Business Administration to participate on a deferred basis in a loan to any dealer acquiring a motor fuel service station. Excludes from the definition of "motor fuel service station" for purposes of this Act certain facilities owned and operated by agricultural cooperative associations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985
Creates and charters the Oil Trading Corporation to trade in crude oil and petroleum products (in order to reduce the potential for supply disruptions and rapid price increases). Prohibits the Corporation from engaging in crude oil exploration, development, or refinement.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should immediately withdraw its proposed rule on natural gas block billing (a substitute pricing method for natural gas).
United States · United States Senate · 14 November 1985
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1985
Declares that the Congress favors the Agreement for Cooperation with China (relating to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy). Prohibits the issuance of a license for the export, transfer, or retransfer of any nuclear materials, facilities, or components to China until: (1) 30 days after the President has certified to the Congress that such materials and facilities shall be utilized solely for peaceful purposes; (2) China has provided the United States additional information concerning its nuclear nonproliferation policies; and (3) the President submits to the Speaker of the House and a specified Senate committee a report concerning China's nuclear nonproliferation policies.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that interstate natural gas pipelines should transport natural gas for any person, including residential and commercial users, and should do so on a nondiscriminatory basis.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) should make changes to the transportation and certificate regulations regarding the Voluntary Natural Gas Transportation Program so that: (1) natural gas transportation to residential, commercial and industrial gas consumers is resumed as soon as possible; and (2) the disincentives for natural gas pipelines to provide voluntary transportation of natural gas for others are removed. Expresses the sense of the Senate that FERC should take immediate action to make natural gas transportation available on an expedited basis in order to preclude further disruption in the natural gas marketplace.
United States · United States Senate · 6 November 1985
European Union · European Commission · 6 November 1985
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1985
Einstellung der Förderung der Forschung und Entwicklung für die Schnellbrüter-Reaktortechnologie, keine Inbetriebnahme des SNR 300 in Kalkar
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1985
Nuclear Waste Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revoke any concurrence in existing guidelines for high-level nuclear waste repository site recommendations unless such guidelines are revised according to specified standards. States that any recommendation made by the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) for potentially acceptable repository site nominations shall be considered to be: (1) a major Federal action significantly affecting the human environment for purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; and (2) a final agency action subject to judicial review. Requires the Secretary to: (1) evaluate and examine all geological provinces and to consider at least four geological media when selecting a second repository site on a nationwide basis; and (2) include in the environmental assessment of nominated sites the environmental impact of transporting high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel through the region surrounding such sites. Requires the Secretary and the President to consider the effect of high-level nuclear waste transportation upon States and Indian reservations containing possible nuclear waste transportation routes. Enumerates the factors which must be considered in such possible nuclear waste transportation routes. Enumerates the factors which must be considered in such transportation analysis. Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide financial assistance to any State or Indian tribe which demonstrates that such assistance is needed to provide public and environmental protection on high-level nuclear waste transportation routes; and (2) submit by a specified date any revisions made to the mission plan regarding the repository site program as a result of this Act.
Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1985
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985
Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 1985 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide that the amount of financial protection required of licensees of facilities having a rated capacity of 100,000 electrical kilowatts or more shall be the maximum amount available at reasonable cost or $200,000,000, whichever amount is more. Increases from $5,000,000 to $100,000,000 the maximum standard deferred premium amount which may be charged following any nuclear incident. Limits such amount to $10,000,000 in any one year. Sets guidelines for the maximum aggregate liability of indemnified persons for a single nuclear incident. Provides that in the event the President determines that the amount of public liability following a nuclear incident exceeds the guideline amounts, the President shall establish a nuclear incident compensation commission with exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate public liability claims. Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to adjust the amount of financial protection required of licensees at least once every five years following the date of enactment of this Act. Extends from 20 to 30 years the statue of limitations for actions arising out of an extraordinary nuclear incident and the resulting waiver of defenses. Repeals the guidelines established for indemnity payments when a Federal district court determines that public liability for a single nuclear incident may exceed certain liability limits. Provides rights of subrogation for certain indemnitors if a nuclear incident at a facility resulted from willful or wanton conduct of a director or executive officer. Requires the NRC and the Secretary of Energy to: (1) submit a detailed report to the Congress by August 1, 1993, regarding liability and indemnification procedures; and (2) submit an annual report by April of each year regarding indemnification activities during the previous calendar year.
Germany · German Bundestag · 30 October 1985
Erzeugung elektrischer Energie aus Wasserkraft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, steuerliche und finanzielle Förderung der Wasserkraft, ökologische Auswirkungen und volkswirtschaftlicher Nutzen eines weiteren Ausbaus, Export von Ausrüstungen für Wasserkraftwerke
European Union · European Commission · 30 October 1985
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985
Interstate Compact - Grants the consent of the Congress to the Southern States Energy Compact regarding coordination among specified States for the development, production, and use of energy. Declares the following States eligible parties to such compact: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Declares any State contiguous to the foregoing States an eligible party to the Compact. Repeals the Act of July 31, 1962 granting the consent of the Congress to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985
Waives points of order against the consideration of S. 1160 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1985
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require State regulatory authorities to investigate, according to prescribed guidelines, electric service interruptions experienced by a State-regulated electric utility as a result of a natural disaster. Requires such regulatory authority to determine: (1) whether repair costs for utility equipment were caused by imprudent utility action or inaction; and (2) if any damages to electric power customers were the result of unreasonable delay in electric service restoration. Prohibits repair costs caused by imprudent utility action or inaction from being charged to such utility customers. Requires the utility to compensate customers damaged by unreasonable delay in electric service restoration.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1985
Nuclear Waste Policy Improvement Act - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to add to the guidelines for repository site selection the following disqualifying factors: (1) the effect upon population centers and geohydrological resources located outside of the United States; and (2) whether any surface facility of such repository would be located in a general purpose State political subdivision having a minimum population of 2500. Requires the environmental assessment which accompanies a repository site recommendation to include the environmental impact of transporting high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel through the region surrounding such site. Requires the Secretary of Energy to include, in the comprehensive public statement and in the environmental impact statement which must accompany a repository site recommendation, the effect of the transportation of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel on States and Indian reservations which contain possible transportation routes. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to any State or Indian tribe which demonstrates that such assistance is needed to maintain safe routes for the transportation of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. Requires the Secretary to submit draft revisions of the mission plan (a comprehensive report regarding the repository program) to the affected States and Indian tribes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and to the Congress, within a specified time.
United States · United States Senate · 10 October 1985
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985
Price-Anderson Improvement Act of 1985 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to increase: (1) from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 the minimum standard deferred premium which may be charged following any nuclear incident: and (2) from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 the maximum standard deferred premium which may be charged following such an incident for each facility required to maintain the maximum amount of financial protection. Extends the authority of such Act through August 1, 2002, (currently, it terminates on August 1, 1987). Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to enter into indemnification agreements with contractors (until August 1, 2002) for the construction or operation of production or utilization facilities for the benefit of the United States involving activities under the risk of public liability for a substantial nuclear incident (currently, the NRC has this authorization). Includes in such authorization any contracts involving the storage or disposal of spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, or transuranic waste, including the transportation of such materials to a storage or disposal site or facility, and the construction and operation of such site. Directs the Secretary to make available from the Nuclear Waste Fund the amounts necessary to compensate public liability claims related to the transportation, storage or disposal of specified nuclear waste. Authorizes the Secretary to require as part of an indemnification agreement that a contractor maintain financial protection to cover public liability relating to the contractual activity. Sets indemnification guidelines for persons indemnified against public liability claims. Sets $100,000,000 as the maximum indemnification amount for nuclear incidents occurring outside the United States. Sets guidelines for aggregate payments made by indemnified persons in any year with respect to liability for nuclear incidents covered by an industry retrospective rating plan. Provides that either the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or the Secretary shall report to the Congress regarding nuclear occurrences which will probably require payments by the United States. Sets guidelines under which the United States district court shall approve payments after determining that public liability from a single nuclear incident may exceed in any year the amount of financial protection or the limit of liability available in that year. Prescribes guidelines for the apportionment of private insurance for all nuclear incidents under the industry retrospective rating plan in the event of two or more nuclear incidents in one year for which public liability claims require payment from such plan. Extends from August 1, 1983, to August 1, 1998, the deadline by which the Commission and the Secretary must submit to the Congress detailed reports concerning indemnification and liability procedures under the Act. Extends from 20 years to 30 years the statute of limitations for actions arising out of an extraordinary nuclear incident (ENO). Provides for waiver of defenses in the event of an ENO involving storage or disposal of spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, or transuranic waste, or related transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Energy to enter into an agreement with the City of Redding, California, regarding the Lake Redding Power Project to: (1) allow the combined operation of the Keswick hydroelectric facility; and (2) provide that the United States is compensated for any reduction in energy generated at the Keswick facility caused by such combined operation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1985
Sino-American Nuclear Verification Act of 1985 - Prohibits issuing a license for the export to China of any nuclear equipment, materials, or technology and prohibits approving the transfer or retransfer to China of such equipment, materials, or technology until 30 days after the President has certified to the Congress that: (1) the verification of peaceful uses on exported items covered by the Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States and China will be essentially equivalent to that provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency; (2) China has communicated its recognition that the Agreement neither favorably nor unfavorably disposes the United States toward approving any alteration of material transferred pursuant to the Agreement or material used in or produced through the use of any material or facility transferred pursuant to the Agreement; (3) China has provided a statement of its nuclear nonproliferation policies, and those policies correspond to the description of such policies contained in a specified State Department document relating to China's nuclear nonproliferation policy; and (4) China has communicated its recognition that all proposed exports of nuclear materials, equipment, or technology under such agreement are subject to U.S. laws and regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1985
Sino-American Nuclear Verification Act of 1985 - Prohibits issuing a license for the export to China of any nuclear equipment, material, or technology and prohibits approving the transfer or retransfer to China of such equipment, material, or technology until 30 days after the President has certified to the Congress that: (1) the verification of peaceful uses on exported items covered by the Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States and China will be essentially equivalent to that provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency; (2) China has communicated its recognition that the Agreement neither favorably nor unfavorably disposes the United States toward approving any alteration of material transferred pursuant to the Agreement or material used in or produced through the use of any material or facility transferred pursuant to the Agreement; (3) China has provided a statement of its nuclear nonproliferation policies, and those policies correspond to the description of such policies contained in a specified State Department document relating to China's nuclear nonproliferation policy; and (4) China has communicated its recognition that all proposed exports of nuclear materials, equipment, or technology under such agreement are subject to U.S. laws and regulations.
Germany · German Bundestag · 8 October 1985
Störfälle beim Kernkraftwerk Stade, Schutzmaßnahmen
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1985
Declares that the Congress favors the proposed Agreement for Cooperation with China (relating to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy).
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 October 1985
Gemeinsame Nichtverbreitungspolitik der EG-Staaten, Appell an die USA und die UdSSR, bei den Genfer Rüstungskontrollgesprächen konkrete Ergebnisse auch im Hinblick auf die Rettung des Atomsperrvertrags zu erzielen
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) purchase petroleum from Mexico for the strategic petroleum reserve by using the total amount in such reserve that is available for acquisition of petroleum products; and (2) submit to the Congress a plan to make available to Mexico an additional $1,500,000,000 in a loan to be repaid, with interest, with petroleum for the strategic petroleum reserve. Urges such plan to offset the Federal budget by the amount of the outlay of such loan by reducing expenditures.
Germany · German Bundestag · 3 October 1985
Einstellung der Technologie der Wiederaufarbeitung und jeder weiteren Forschung in diesem Bereich
Germany · German Bundestag · 3 October 1985
Atomrechtliches Genehmigungsverfahren für die WAA Wackersdorf, Konzept zur Entsorgung der Kernkraftwerke unter Einschluß der Technik der Wiederaufarbeitung, Untersuchungen zur sicherheitstechnischen und ökologischen Durchführbarkeit einer direkten Endlagerung
Germany · German Bundestag · 2 October 1985
Ablehnung des Baus der geplanten Wiederaufarbeitungsanlage Wackersdorf und des Entsorgungsweges mit Wiederaufarbeitung abgebrannter Brennelemente, Einstellung der Förderung der WAA Wackersdorf aus Mitteln der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe "Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur", klarstellende Änderung des § 9a des Atomgesetzes in Richtung auf den alleinigen Entsorgungsweg der direkten Endlagerung
Germany · German Bundestag · 2 October 1985
Ablehnung der Technologie der Wiederaufarbeitung und des großtechnischen Einstiegs in die Plutoniumwirtschaft, Unterstützung der Proteste und Demonstrationen gegen die geplante WAA Wackersdorf
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1985
Nuclear Fuel Security Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to require by regulation that not less than 75 percent of source material or special nuclear material employed in specified facilities be derived from uranium that is mined and milled in the United States. Specifies exemptions. Authorizes the Secretary to revise such percentage once every five years. Suspends certain regulations issued by the Secretary for the purpose of assessing the viability of the domestic uranium industry, including the definition of viable domestic uranium industry.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1985
Declares that the Congress favors the proposed Agreement for Cooperation with China (relating to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy).