Site Selection Act.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to the search and selection of a final disposal site for highly radioactive waste. In particular, the site selection procedure will be prepared by a Commission comprising all parts of society, its 33 members will come from academia and the various groups of society as well as the Federal Parliament and the Bundesrat (Federal Council). The Commission is to draw up and present proposals concerning security requirements and geological selection/exclusion criteria. The decision on the major steps of the selection procedure lies with the German Bundestag, which will pass respective Acts. In particular, these will include decisions on the sites for above-ground and underground exploration and at the end of the procedure the decision on the site, for which a repository licence will be applied for. The text consists of 38 articles divided into 7 Chapters as follows: General provisions (1); Participation procedures (2); Procedure to select a repository (3); Costs (4); Final provisions (5): Transitional provisions (6); Authorization procedures (7); Twelve Annexes are encloses. Twelve Annexes are enclosed