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42 U.S.C. 2294: Authorization for sale or lease of uranium and plutonium; amounts; lien for nonpayment; uranium enrichment services
Created in 1958 by Public Law 85-846. Changed by 4 later laws. No bill we track in this Congress changes it.
- past change
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This Congress
No bill we track in the 119th Congress changes this section.
How it got here
1973
- Pub. L. 93–88 substituted "an amount of contained uranium 235 which does not exceed that necessary to support the fuel cycle of power reactors located within the Community having a total installed capacity of thirty-five thousand megawatts of electric energy, together with twenty-five thousand kilo…
1967
- Pub. L. 90–190 increased from seventy thousand to two hundred fifteen thousand kilograms of contained uranium 235 and from five hundred to one thousand five hundred kilograms of plutonium respectively the amount of material authorized to be sold or leased to the Community, and inserted provision au…
1964
- Pub. L. 88–394 increased the amount of contained uranium 235 from thirty thousand kilograms to seventy thousand kilograms, and plutonium, from nine kilograms to five hundred kilograms.
1961
- Pub. L. 87–206 substituted "Nine kilograms" for "One kilogram" of plutonium and inserted item reading "Thirty kilograms of uranium 233" and "or agreements".
Text, outline and history from the official U.S. Code (2024 edition) on GovInfo, published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Changes made after that edition appear under This Congress.