Economic Recovery for Nuclear-Affected Communities Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7796 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7796 To assist communities affected by stranded nuclear waste, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 4, 2026 Mr. Lawler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To assist communities affected by stranded nuclear waste, and for other purposes. 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 ``Economic Recovery for Nuclear- Affected Communities Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) communities throughout the United States, including communities in the States of California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Wisconsin, are tasked with dealing with stranded nuclear waste; (2) communities affected by stranded nuclear waste are de facto interim nuclear waste storage sites; (3) the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.)-- (A) directed the Secretary of Energy to make annual impact assistance payments to States or appropriate units of local government to mitigate the social and economic impacts of the establishment and operation of interim nuclear waste storage capacity within the jurisdictional boundaries of an affected community; and (B) established the rate for impact assistance payments at $15 per kilogram of spe