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, Comnptroler (OenerA] -
of the Vnited State-
B-223315
B-223370
September I8, L986
The Honorable Slade Gorton
United States Senate
Dear Senator Gorton:
This is in response to your request of September 15 for
clarification of one aspect of our opinion to you on the
second nuclear waste repository. Specifically, in commenting
on the decision by the Secretary of Energy to postpone
indefinitely activities needed to locate a site for the
second repository, we said that failure of the Administration
to meet the deadlines in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (42
U.S.C. S 10101 et seq.) would violate the Act, but that the
Act prescribes no consequences for failure to meet its
deadlines. B-223315, B223370, September 12, 1986.
You observed in your letter that an aggrieved party may go to
court to seek an order requiring compliance with the mandate
of the Act. As of course you know, and as we noted in our
opinion, the state of Washington has done just that, asking
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, pursuant to section 119
of the Act (42 U.S.C. § 10139), either to order the Depart-
ment of Energy to meet the statutory deadlines or, in the
alternative, to enjoin the Department from proceeding further
with the first repository. We did not intend to imply that
the courts could not entertain such an action seeking
prospective relief that would require future compliance witn
the Act. Rather, we meant only that the Act contains no
penalties for past noncompliance.
I trust this will alleviate your concern.
Sincerely yours,
, Comptrolle General
of the United States](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadtoy0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)