1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sensible, Timely Relief for America's Nuclear Districts' Economic Development Act of 2017 or the STRANDED Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) in 1982, Congress authorized the Secretary of Energy and the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to safely manage and dispose of the most highly radioactive nuclear waste of the United States, a responsibility that includes— (A) removing spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants for a fee; and (B) transporting the spent fuel to— (i) a permanent geological repository; or (ii) an interim storage facility before permanent disposal; (2) for more than 30 years, nuclear power plants have operated in good faith that the Federal Government would establish a permanent geological repository; (3) communities throughout the United States, including communities in the States of California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Vermont, and Wisconsin, are tasked with dealing with stranded nuclear waste; (4) communities affected by stranded nuclear waste are in fact interim nuclear waste storage sites; (5) the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 ( 42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.)— (A) directed the Secretary to make annual impact assistance payments to States or appropriate units of local government to mitigate the social and economic impacts of the establishment and operation of interim nuclear waste storage capacity within the jurisdictional boundaries of an affected community; and (B) established the rate for impact assistance payments at $15 per kilogram of spent nuclear fuel; (6) decommissioning a commercial nuclear power plant is often catastrophic for the host community because nuclear power plants are major employers and the primary source of local tax revenue; (7) stranded nuclear waste is a profound obstacle to future economic growth, deterring potential employers and residents from considering the host community