Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act of 1988

Summary

WIPP Land Withdrawal Act of 1987 - Withdraws lands to be known as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Eddy County, New Mexico, from all forms of entry and disposal under the public land, mining, and mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Transfers such lands from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Energy. (WIPP is a research facility for demonstrating the safe disposal of radioactive waste.) Provides compensation to New Mexico for lost mineral royalties. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to acquire non-Federal lands within WIPP. Directs the Secretary to develop within one year a management plan for such lands and surface resources. Permits grazing, hunting, and trapping, as specified. Requires such lands to be managed to preserve wildlife and its habitat. Requires the Secretary to dispose of salt tailings. Prohibits mining unrelated to the mission of WIPP. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with New Mexico for grazing and wildlife habitat management. Requires the Secretary to submit the management plan to the appropriate congressional committees within one year. Directs the Secretary to encourage business opportunities related to WIPP, reporting annually to New Mexico. Requires the Secretary to develop an economic impact plan estimating the impact of WIPP on affected community services in southern New Mexico. Directs the Secretary to make annual impact assistance payments to New Mexico. Requires the Secretary to publish and submit within two years to New Mexico and the appropriate congressional committees a plan for managing the facility after decommissioning. Directs the Secretary to publish within two years a report describing plans for conducting experiments with high level waste at WIPP prior to their conduct. Requires that WIPP comply with relevant Environmental Protection Agency standards for spent nuclear fuel and high level and transuranic waste. Requires that WIPP use engineered and natural barriers.

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• Reported to House amended, Part I

  summary · EN · 11 August 1988

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 21 May 1987

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