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(d) Any funds which are made available for obligation 4 in any year to carry out this Act and which have not been 5 obligated during that year shall be available for obligation 6 by the Secretary until September 30, 1982.

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(1) appropriate site restoration shall be determined

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tribe, as appropriate and shall be submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for review and comment;

(2) any site restoration shall be performed by the Department of Energy or its authorized contractor and shall be paid for by the Department of Energy;

(c) Unless otherwise determined by the Secretary, the

8 Secretary of the Interior shall have the responsibility for 9 the continued custody of uranium mill tailings involved in 10 any remedial action effort.

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(d) With respect to Indian lands referred to in subsec12 tion (a) of this section, the United States shall be released 13 from any radioactive materials related liability claim thereof 14 from the date of enactment of this Act through and including 15 the completion of any remedial action authorized by this 16 Act; however, this provision does not apply to other sections 17 of this Act nor affect the trust responsibilities of the Secre18 tary of the Interior as described in subsection (a) of this 19 section.

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SEC. 9. (a) When the period for awarding grants under 21 section 2 of this Act has ended, the Secretary shall take such 22 action as may be appropriate to provide for the restoration 23 of any abandoned uranium mill site which is located in a 24 State specified in section 2 (a) of this Act and which is not 25 being restored under a grant awarded under such section.

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(1) restoring background radiation levels at the sites referred to in subsection (a) of this section to a level which is no more than twice background level which existed before milling operations began at such sites in order to eliminate any health hazard to residents of the area;

(2) disposing of the uranium mill tailings removed from the abandoned sites restored under paragraph (1)

of this subsection in a manner which prevents any 12 further exposure of individuals to radiation emanating

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(3) monitoring the radiation levels at the sites

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SEC. 10. (a) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

18 shall within one hundred and twenty days after enactment of 19 this Act establish regulations, and standards to assure that the public safety and health and the environment are not 21 impaired by the remedial action undertaken pursuant to the 22 terms of this Act.

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SEC. 11. (a) The Secretary shall conduct a pilot study

in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah, to

(1) determine to what extent, if any, radiation from uranium mill tailings at the abandoned uranium mill site contaminates structures located within a ten mile radius of such sites; and

(2) determine whether the radiation referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection poses a health hazard

to individuals living or working in the area described in such paragraph, and examine the types of remedial

actions which might be undertaken to limit the exposure

of individuals to such radiation.

(b) Within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a report containing

the findings respecting each of the items studied under sub19 section (a) of this section, together with such recommen20 dations as the Secretary considers appropriate. The 21 Secretary shall submit the report to the President and to

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(b) the term "grant recipient" means any appli

cant which receives a grant under section 3 (c) of this Act;

(c) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Energy;

(d) the term "abandoned uranium mill site" means a site on which uranium ore was processed but shall not include a site

(1) where the site was owned on January 1, 1978, by the United States Government or any agency or department thereof; or

(2) where a license issued by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Atomic Energy Commission or a State under section 274

of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, was in effect on or was issued after January 1,

1978, and the production of a uranium product derived from ores other than onsite uranium tailings

occurred since February 1, 1973, as hereinafter defined;

(e) the term "uranium mill tailings" shall mean

the accumulated tailings resulting from processing of

ores for extraction of uranium and other valuable con

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residual stock of unprocessed ores or low grade ma