Number: RL33461
Title: Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal
Authors: Mak Holt, Resources, Science, and Industry Division 
Abstract: The Administration proposed legislation on March 6, 2007, to repeal the statutory cap on the amount of waste at Yucca Mountain, reduce the scope of environmental reviews for the repository, change budget procedures so that program funding could be increased more easily, exempt nuclear waste sent to Yucca Mountain from disposal requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and allow preemption of state and local transportation requirements. A similar bill (H.R. 5360, S. 2589) did not pass in the 109th Congress.
Pages: 23
Date: October 7, 2008