---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10270"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10270"
heading: "Termination of Board"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10270"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy"
  - "Subchapter V — Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board"
---

# §10270. Termination of Board


The [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2) shall cease to exist not later than 1 year after the date on which the [Secretary](/usc/42/10101.md?p=20) begins [disposal](/usc/42/10101.md?p=9) of [high-level radioactive waste](/usc/42/10101.md?p=12) or [spent nuclear fuel](/usc/42/10101.md?p=23) in a [repository](/usc/42/10101.md?p=18).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title V, § 510, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5051, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–251.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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