Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act information
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act
Long title
An Act to authorize the Secretary of Energy to enter into cooperative agreements with certain States respecting residual radioactive material at existing sites, to provide for the regulation of uranium mill tailings under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)
UMTRCA
Nicknames
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978
Enacted by
the 95th United States Congress
Effective
November 8, 1978
Citations
Public law
95-604
Statutes at Large
92 Stat. 3021
Codification
Titles amended
42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare
U.S.C. sections created
42 U.S.C. ch. 88 § 7901 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 13650 by Morris K. Udall (D-AZ) on July 28, 1978
Committee consideration by House Interior and Insular Affairs, House Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Passed the House on October 3, 1978 (passed division vote)
Passed the Senate on October 13, 1978 (agreed) with amendment
House agreed to Senate amendment on October 14, 1978 (agreed) with further amendment
Senate agreed to House amendment on October 14, 1978 (Agreed)
Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on November 8, 1978
Major amendments
Public Law 97-415, 96 Stat. 2067, subsection (e)(3) (1983)
Public Law 100-616, 102 Stat. 3192, subsection (a), section 8(b) (1988)
Public Law 102-486, 106 Stat. 2776, subsection (a) (1992)
Public Law 104-259, 110 Stat. 3173, subsection (a), subsection (d) (1996)
Public Law 106-398, 114 Stat. 1654, subsection (f) (2000)
The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (1978) is a United States environmental law that amended the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to establish health and environmental standards for the stabilization, restoration, and disposal of uranium mill waste. Title 1 of the Act required the EPA to set environmental protection standards consistent with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, including groundwater protection limits; the Department of Energy to implement EPA standards and provide perpetual care for some sites; and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review cleanups and license sites to states or the DOE for perpetual care.[1] Title 1 established a uranium mill remedial action program jointly funded by the federal government and the state.[2] Title 1 of the Act also designated 22 inactive uranium mill sites for remediation, resulting in the containment of 40 million cubic yards of low-level radioactive material in UMTRCA Title 1 holding cells.[3]
^Laws We Use (Summaries):1978 - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act(42 USC 2022 et seq.), EPA, retrieved December 16, 2012
^Fact Sheet on Uranium Mill Tailings, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, retrieved December 16, 2012
^Regulatory Framework: UMTRCA Title I Disposal and Processing Sites, U.S. Department of Energy, retrieved December 16, 2012
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