Pennsylvania Statutes Title 71 P.S. State Government § 510-4.1. Uranium tailings (Adm. Code § 1904-A.1)

(1) To enter into such cooperative agreements with the United States Department of Energy as are described in section 103 of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Public Law 95-604, 42 U.S.C. § 7901 et seq. to perform remedial actions at each processing site in Pennsylvania designated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978.

(2) To acquire, in consultation with the United States Government, by purchase or by eminent domain, such property or interest therein as is necessary for performance of remedial action.

(3) To pay, in cooperation with the United States Government, to both tenants and owners in fee of such property as is acquired by purchase, in addition to the purchase price, those moving and removal expenses and other damages as are provided for in Article VI of the act of June 22, 1964 (Sp.Sess., P.L. 84, No. 6), known as the “Eminent Domain Code.”  1

(4) To dispose of any property or interest therein acquired under the provisions of this section in accordance with the terms and conditions of cooperative agreements entered into pursuant to clause (1).

(5) To perform, in cooperation with the United States Government, such other remedial action as may be necessary.

(1) Any site in the Commonwealth, including the mill, containing residual radioactive materials at which all or substantially all of the uranium was produced for sale to any Federal agency prior to January 1, 1971, under a contract with any Federal Agency; or

(2) Any other real property or improvement which is in the vicinity of such site and is determined by the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy to be contaminated with residual radioactive materials derived from such site.