Uranium Enrichment and Supply: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, March 21, 1985, Volume 4

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Page 679 - Commission issues regulations setting forth the scope, procedure, and limitations of the authority of each such board; b. establish by rule, regulation, or order, such standards and instructions to govern the possession and use of special nuclear material, source material, and byproduct material as the Commission may deem necessary or desirable to promote the common defense and security or to protect health or to minimize danger to life or property; c.
Page 460 - States; or (2) a matter relating to agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts. (b) General notice of proposed rule making shall be published in the Federal Register, unless persons subject thereto are named and either personally served or otherwise have actual notice thereof in accordance with law.
Page 469 - ... shall be on a basis of recovery of the Government's costs over a reasonable period of time...
Page 471 - The weight of such a judgment in a particular case will depend upon the thoroughness evident in its consideration, the validity of its reasoning, its consistency with earlier and later pronouncements, and all those factors which give it power to persuade, if lacking power to control.
Page 667 - ... d. a program to encourage widespread participation in the development and utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes to the maximum extent consistent with the common defense and security and with the health and safety of the public; e.
Page 459 - ... enrichment contracts nor that Energy can bypass amending its criteria before including a new feature in its contracts, particularly a guaranteed ceiling price. 5/ In 1966 when the first uranium enrichment services criteria were established, they specifically provided for a guaranteed ceiling price.
Page 485 - Representative Holifield. It is very clear on the face of it that this is a move, justified on the basis of a new arrangement, to evade or to nullify congressional control. • • • it seems to me that this is a very convenient way to say that it is too complicated and, ' therefore, we want to change the law, or evade it, in order to keep congressional control from taking place.
Page 679 - Commission may determine to be inimical to the common defense and security, and (3) to govern any activity authorized pursuant to this Act, including standards and restrictions governing the design, location, and operation of facilities used in the conduct of such activity, in order to protect health and to minimite danger to life or property.
Page 657 - Accordingly, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the people of the United States that, subject at all times to the paramount objective of assuring the common defense and security, the development and utilization of atomic energy shall, so far as practicable, be directed toward improving the public welfare, increasing the standard of living, strengthening free competition in private enterprise and promoting world peace.
Page 474 - In the long-term contracts (up to 30 years) for enrichment services under the toll enrichment program, the customer is obliged to supply a given quantity and chemical quality of uranium feed to produce the purchased quantity of enriched uranium under the standard operating procedures at Energy's gaseous diffusion plants. However, physically and chemically Energy can modify its operating procedures within certain limits. For example, a given quantity of enriched uranium can be produced by using a...

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