HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources
Section 8-1413.4
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 43 - Health

[689B.

(a)  It is unlawful to establish any plant or facility
to be used for the reprocessing or recovery of nuclear fuel,
blanket, or related material within this State.

(b)  It is unlawful to establish any permanent storage
facility, burial ground or other installation for the
long-term storing of waste nuclear materials or their
by-products while awaiting radioactive decay, within the
State. This subsection does not prohibit temporary storage
of used nuclear plant fuel until June 30, 1980, if the
Secretary determines that the storage is:

(1)  Necessary;

(2)  In the public interest;

(3)  Unlikely to cause any risk of leakage or
release of radiation which is harmful to the health of the
public as determined by all scientific tests accepted as
reliable by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission;
and

(4)  Within a facility designed and regularly
tested so as to safely accomplish the long-term storage of
nuclear waste material.]

NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL

689B.

(A)  IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B)  "HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES" MEANS:

(1)  SPENT NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL;

(2)  LIQUID WASTES RESULTING FROM THE OPERATION
OF THE FIRST CYCLE SOLVENT EXTRACTION SYSTEM, OR ITS
EQUIVALENT, AND THE CONCENTRATED WASTES FROM SUBSEQUENT
EXTRACTION CYCLES, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, IN A FACILITY FOR
REPROCESSING SPENT NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL; OR