Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ In the event that geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions and the con­struc­tion of a deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­ory should res­ult in sig­ni­fic­ant volumes of ex­cav­ated, ex­trac­ted or de­moli­tion ma­ter­i­al that can­not be used or stored in the im­me­di­ate vi­cin­ity of the site, the au­thor­it­ies of the can­ton con­cerned shall des­ig­nate sites ne­ces­sary for the dis­pos­al of that ma­ter­i­al.

² In the event that the can­ton con­cerned has not gran­ted a li­cence, or that the li­cence is­sued has not entered in­to force at the time the con­struc­tion li­cence for car­ry­ing out geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions is gran­ted, the De­part­ment may des­ig­nate an in­ter­im stor­age site and at­tach con­di­tions and re­quire­ments gov­ern­ing its use. The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing pro­ced­ures as spe­cified in this sec­tion ap­ply. The can­ton con­cerned shall des­ig­nate sites for the dis­pos­al of the ma­ter­i­al with­in a peri­od of five years.