Sec. 7. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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## SEC. 7 RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ###
(a)Financial and Technical Assistance The Secretary shall, to the extent provided in appropriations Act, provide to those compact regions, host States, and nonmember States detemined25 by the Secretary to require assistance for purposes of carrying out this Act— 25So in original. Probably should be “determined”. ####
(1)continuing technical assistance to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities under this Act. Such technical assistance shall include, but not be limited to, technical guidelines for site selection, alternative technologies for low-level radioactive waste disposal, volume reduction options, management techniques to reduce low-level waste generation, transportation practices for shipment of low-level wastes, health and safety considerations in the storage, shipment and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes, and establishment of a computerized data-base to monitor the management of low-level radioactive wastes; and ####
(2)through the end of fiscal year 1993, financial assistance to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities under this Act. ###
(b)Reports The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Congress on an annual basis a report which
(1)summarizes the progress of low-level waste disposal siting and licensing activities within each compact region,
(2)reviews the available volume reduction technologies, their applications, effectiveness, and costs on a per unit volume basis,
(3)reviews interim storage facility requirements, costs, and usage,
(4)summarizes transportation requirements for such wastes on an inter- and intra-regional basis,
(5)summarizes the data on the total amount of low-level waste shipped for disposal on a yearly basis, the proportion of such wastes subjected to volume reduction, the average volume reduction attained, and the proportion of wastes stored on an interim basis, and
(6)projects the interim storage and final disposal volume requirements anticipated for the following year, on a regional basis. **[**[42 U.S.C. 2021g](/us/usc/t42/s2021g)**]**
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