---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10167"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10167"
heading: "Benefits agreement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10167"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Disposal and Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste, Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste"
  - "Part C — Monitored Retrievable Storage"
---

# §10167. Benefits agreement


Once selection of a site for a [monitored retrievable storage facility](/usc/42/10101.md?p=34) is made by the [Secretary](/usc/42/10101.md?p=20) under [section 10165 of this title](/usc/42/10165.md), the [Indian tribe](/usc/42/10101.md?p=15) on whose [reservation](/usc/42/10101.md?p=19) the site is located, or, in the case that the site is not located on a [reservation](/usc/42/10101.md?p=19), the [State](/usc/42/10101.md?p=24) in which the site is located, shall be eligible to enter into a benefits agreement with the [Secretary](/usc/42/10101.md?p=20) under [section 10173 of this title](/usc/42/10173.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title I, § 147, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III, § 300], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5021, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–235.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.