{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s10164","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f10164.","heading":"Survey","text":"\u00a7\u202f10164.\nSurvey\nAfter the MRS Commission submits its report to the Congress under\n(1) enhance the reliability and flexibility of the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste established under this chapter;\n(2) minimize the impacts of transportation and handling of such fuel and waste;\n(3) provide for public confidence in the ability of such system to safely dispose of the fuel and waste;\n(4) impose minimal adverse effects on the local community and the local environment;\n(5) provide a high probability that the facility will meet applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements in a timely fashion;\n(6) provide such other benefits to the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste as the Secretary deems appropriate; and\n(7) unduly burden a State in which significant volumes of high-level radioactive waste resulting from atomic energy defense activities are stored.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s10164.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f10164."},{"t":"heading","text":"Survey","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"After the MRS Commission submits its report to the Congress under ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 10163 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t42/s10163","tail":", the Secretary may conduct a survey and evaluation of potentially suitable sites for a monitored retrievable storage facility. In conducting such survey and evaluation, the Secretary shall consider the extent to which siting a monitored retrievable storage facility at each site surveyed would\u2014"}]},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" enhance the reliability and flexibility of the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste established under this chapter;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" minimize the impacts of transportation and handling of such fuel and waste;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" provide for public confidence in the ability of such system to safely dispose of the fuel and waste;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" impose minimal adverse effects on the local community and the local environment;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/5","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(5)"},{"t":"content","text":" provide a high probability that the facility will meet applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements in a timely fashion;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/6","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(6)"},{"t":"content","text":" provide such other benefits to the system for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste as the Secretary deems appropriate; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s10164/7","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(7)"},{"t":"content","text":" unduly burden a State in which significant volumes of high-level radioactive waste resulting from atomic energy defense activities are stored.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}