A bill terminate the exemption of certain contractors and other entities from civil penalties for violations of nuclear safety requirements under Atomic Energy Act of 1954

Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 regarding civil penalties for violations of Department of Energy regulations to repeal: (1) the requirement that the Secretary of Energy determine by rule whether nonprofit educational institutions should receive automatic remission of any penalty; and (2) the exemption from such penalties of the University of Chicago, the University of California, American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiaries, Universities Research Association, Inc., Princeton University, the Associated Universities, Inc., Battelle Memorial Institute, and any of their subcontractors or suppliers, for activities associated with specified laboratories.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1280 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1280

 To terminate the exemption of certain contractors and other entities 
  from civil penalties for violations of nuclear safety requirements 
                  under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 1999

   Mr. Bryan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To terminate the exemption of certain contractors and other entities 
  from civil penalties for violations of nuclear safety requirements 
                  under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    (a) Subsection b. (2) of section 234A of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 (42 U.S.C. 2282a) is amended by striking the second sentence.
    (b) Specified Contractors.--That section is further amended by 
striking subsection d.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall apply with 
respect to violations specified in section 234A of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954 that occur on or after that date.
                                 <all>