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legislative history often offers insight into a statute's intended meaning and purpose consequently if a statute is ambiguous it's common for a court to turn to legislative history for guidance but in train versus colorado public interest research group we explore whether a court can consider legislative history if a statute appears unambiguous the atomic energy act enacted in 1946 charged the atomic energy commission with regulating certain radioactive materials namely source by-product and special nuclear materials pursuant to its regulatory authority the commission established limits on the discharge of such materials into the environment including into waterways the subsequently enacted federal water pollution control act which will refer to as the water act charged the environmental protection agency or epa with developing a permit system regulating the discharge of pollutants into the nation's waterways the act's definition of pollutants expressly included radioactive materials b