Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1996

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Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1996 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to perform the following duties: (1) dispose of low-level radioactive waste generated within any State outside a sited compact region; (2) establish a disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste on federally-owned land; (3) accept for disposal any low-level radioactive waste generated within any State outside a sited compact region; (4) contract with the Secretary of Energy for the temporary storage of low-level radioactive waste at any Department of Energy radioactive waste facility; (5) take physical possession, by a specified date, of low-level radioactive waste tendered by a waste generator, broker, or State regulatory official, regardless of whether a contract with the Secretary of Energy has been executed; and (6) establish low-level radioactive waste disposal rates.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 7 May 1996

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  summary · EN · 7 May 1996

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