Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 2.djvu/999

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PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 107 STAT. 1949 Energy to meet such requirements. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, with a classified appendix if necessary. (c) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT. —The Secretary of Energy shall include an assessment of the capacity of the Department of Energy to produce tritium after 2008 in the Secretary's programmatic environmental impact statement under 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) on the reconfiguration of the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex. The Secretary shall issue the programmatic environmental impact statement not later than March 1, 1995. Subtitle D—Other Matters SEC. 3151. LIMITATIONS ON THE RECEIPT AND STORAGE OF SPENT 42 USC 2160 NUCLEAR FUEL FROM FOREIGN RESEARCH REACTORS, note. (a) PURPOSE.— It is the purpose of this section to regulate the receipt and storage of spent nuclear fiiel at the Department of Energy defense nuclear facility located at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina (in this section referred to as the "Savannah River Site"). (b) RECEIPT IN EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES. —W hen the Secretary of Energy determines that emergency circumstances make it necessary to receive spent nuclear fiiel, the Secretary shall submit a notification of that determination to the Congress. The Secretary may not receive spent nuclear fuel at the Savannah River Site until the expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the Congress receives the notification. (c) LIMITATION ON STORAGE IN NON-EMERGENCY CIR- CUMSTANCES. —The Secretary of Energy may not, under other than emergency circumstences, receive andstore at the Savannah River Site any spent nuclear fuel in excess of the amount that (as of the date of the enactment of this Act) the Savannah River Site is capable of receiving and storing, until, with respect to the receipt and storage of any such spent nuclear fuel— (1) the completion of an environmental impact statement under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(0); (2) the expiration of the 90-day period (as prescribed by regulation pursuant to such Act) beginning on the date of such completion; and (3) the signing by the Secretary of a record of decision following such completion. (d) LIMITATIONS ON RECEIPT.—The Secretary of Energy may not, under emergency or non-emergency circumstences, receive spentnuclear fuel if the spent nuclear fuel— (1) cannot be transferred in an expeditious manner from ito port of entry in the United Stotes to a storage facility that is located at a Department of Energy facility and is capable of receiving and storing the spent nuclear fiiel; or (2) will remain on a vessel in the port of entry for a period that exceeds the period necessary to unload the fiiel from the vessel pursuant to routine imloacUng procedures. (e) CRITERIA FOR PORT OF ENTRY. — The Secretary of Energy shall, if economically feasible and to the maximum extent practicable, provide for the receipt of spent nuclear fuel under this