Duties of the Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste and Decommissioning

The duties of the Commission are to:

A. Provide opportunities for public input and disseminate information to the general public and promote public understanding concerning the management of radioactive waste;

B. Study the management, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of radioactive waste, including high-level and low-level radioactive waste and mixed waste, generated in this State;

C. Monitor the methods, criteria and federal timetables for siting and constructing high-level radioactive waste repositories or storage facilities;

D. Monitor the Texas siting effort and Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission activities and, if events require, propose legislation to reinstate an in-state siting effort for the storage or disposal of low-level radioactive waste in the state;

E. Advise the Governor, the Legislature the department and the Department of Environmental Protection or their successors, the State's member of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission and other pertinent state agencies and entities, as appropriate, on relevant findings and recommendations of the commission;

F. Receive a written report from the State's member of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission within 60 days after a meeting of that Commission or an oral report from that member at the next scheduled meeting of the Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste, whichever comes first; and

G. Prepare a newsletter recording developments relevant to radioactive waste issues.

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Duties of the Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste and Decommissioning