Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Government Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Extension Act of 2013”.
Government Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Extension Act of 2013
A BILL
To provide for the safe disposal of Federal Government-owned transuranic waste for the benefit of all Americans.
Sec. 2 Extension of waste isolation pilot plant mission
The Secretary of Energy shall manage WIPP in such a way as to include, in addition to the disposal of wastes authorized by section 213 of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–164; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265), the transportation and disposal of any non-defense Federal Government-owned transuranic waste that can be shown to meet the applicable criteria described in the document entitled Transuranic Waste Acceptance Criteria For The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, published by the Department of Energy on April 21, 2011, or any successor document.
Sec. 3 Definitions
In this Act:
Disposal; transuranic waste— The terms disposal and transuranic waste have the meanings given those terms in section 2 of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act (Public Law 102–579; 106 Stat. 4777).
WIPP— The term WIPP means the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant project authorized under section 213 of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–164; 93 Stat. 1259, 1265).