Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2013

Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.

Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable to an original application for initial construction.

Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not available at the time of original licensing, have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2712 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2712

To provide certain requirements for the licensing of commercial nuclear 
                              facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2013

 Mrs. Lowey (for herself and Mr. Engel) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide certain requirements for the licensing of commercial nuclear 
                              facilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2133) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection b., by inserting ``, including that the 
        facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the 
        environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities 
        (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and that there 
        exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events and that 
        those plans have been approved by the relevant Federal agencies 
        and States within 50 miles of the facility'' after ``by rule 
        establish''; and
            (2) in subsection c., by adding at the end the following: 
        ``Any such renewal shall be subject to the same criteria and 
        requirements that would be applicable for an original 
        application for initial construction, and the Commission shall 
        ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the 
        surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not 
        available at time of original licensing, have not resulted in 
        the facility being located at a site at which a new facility 
        would not be allowed to be built.''.
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