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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 412
107TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 107-159
APPROVAL OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN SITE
JUNE 10, 2002.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BINGAMAN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S.J. Res. 34]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 34) approving the site at
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the development of a repository for
the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel,
pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the joint resolution do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE MEASURE
The purpose of S.J. Res. 34 is to approve the site at Yucca Moun-
tain, Nevada for the development of a repository for the disposal
of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel pursuant to
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. Timely enactment of S.J. Res
34 will allow the Secretary of Energy to apply to the Nuclear Regu-
latory Commission for a license to build a repository at Yucca
Mountain. Failure to enact the resolution within the 90-day period
prescribed by the Act, on the other hand, will terminate the reposi-
tory program established by the Act.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to provide
for the timely siting, construction, and operation of an underground
repository for the permanent disposal of the nation's high-level ra-
dioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. As used in the Act, the
term high-level radioactive waste refers to the mixture of caustic
chemicals and highly radioactive waste products that remain after
uranium and plutonium have been chemically removed from spent
nuclear fuel. Spent nuclear fuel refers to irradiated nuclear fuel
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