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"Sec. 82. Foreign Distribution of Byproduct Material.
"Sec. 83. Ownership and custody of certain byproduct material
and disposal sites.".

"Sec. 84. Authorities of Commission respecting certain byproduct

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Declaration. 42 U.S.C. sec. 2011.

Findings. 42 U.S.C. Dec. 2012.

"Sec. 271. Agency Jurisdiction.

"Sec. 272. Applicability of Federal Power Act.
"Sec. 273. Licensing of Government Agencies.

"Sec. 274. Cooperation with States.

"Sec. 275. Health and environmental standards for uranium mill tailings.

"Sec. 281. Separability.
"Sec. 291. Short Title.

"CHAPTER 20. JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY ABOLISHED;
FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES REASSIGNED

"Sec. 301. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Abolished.
"Sec. 302. Transfers of Certain Functions of the Joint Committee
on Atomic Energy and Conforming Amendments to
Certain Other Laws.

"Sec. 303. Information and Assistance to Congressional Com-
mittees.

"CHAPTER 1. DECLARATION, FINDINGS, AND PURPOSE

"SECTION 1. DECLARATION.-Atomic energy is capable of application for peaceful as well as military purposes. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the United States that

"a. the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to make the maximum contribution to the general welfare, subject at all times to the paramount objective of making the maximum contribution to the common defense and security; and

"b. the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to promote world peace, improve the general welfare, increase the standard of living, and strengthen free competition in private enterprise.

"SEC. 2. FINDINGS.2-The Congress of the United States hereby makes the following findings concerning the development, use, and control of atomic energy:

"a. The development, utilization, and control of atomic energy for military and for all other purposes are vital to the common defense and security.

"c. The processing and utilization of source, byproduct, and special nuclear material affect interstate and

Sec. 20 of Public Law 88-489 (78 Stat. 602) (1964), the Private Ownership of Special Nuclear Materials Act, reads as follows:

"Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to diminish existing authority of the United States, or of the Atomic Energy Commission under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to regulate source, byproduct, and special nuclear material and production and utilization facilities or to control such materials and facilities exported from the United States by imposition of governmental guarantees and security safeguards with respect thereto, in order to assure the common defense and security and to protect the health and safety of the public, or to reduce the re sponsibility of the Atomic Energy Commission to achieve such objectives." Public Law 88-489 (78 Stat. 602) (1964), sec. 1, deleted subsec. 2 b. Subsec. 2 b read as follows:

"b. In permitting the property of the United States to be used by others Buch use must be regulated in the national interest and in order to provide for the common defense and security and to protect the health and safety of the public."

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