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99 CIS H 27158
TITLE:
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999
CIS-NO: 99-H271-58
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Feb. 10, Mar. 12, 1999
LENGTH: iv+245 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01;
1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-17
MC-ENTRY-NO: 99-18822
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-17.
Hearings before the Subcom on Energy and Power to consider H.R. 45, the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, to amend the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to revise DOE programs for the
management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level
nuclear waste.
Includes provisions to:
a. Require DOE to design, construct, and operate in Nevada
an interim storage facility accessible by heavy-haul truck or direct rail
access, and to begin storing spent nuclear fuel and high-level
waste at the interim storage facility by June 30, 2003.
b.
Provide for site characterization activities and eventual NRC licensing of a
permanent repository for spent nuclear reactor
fuel and other high level radioactive wastes at Yucca Mountain, Nev.
Also examines status of lawsuits filed by nuclear utilities
against DOE for its failure to uphold contractual obligations under the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act to begin accepting and storing spent
fuel.
Supplementary material (p. 133-157, 214-245) includes a
submitted statement, correspondence, witnesses' written replies to Subcom
questions, and:
-- Schriber, Stan O. (Los Alamos Natl
Lab), "Accelerator-Driven Destruction of Long-Lived Radioactive Waste and Energy
Production" (p. 215-222).
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs, revision
BILLS: 106
H.R. 45
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON ENERGY AND POWER. HOUSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE
DISPOSAL; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; TRUCKS AND TRUCKING INDUSTRY; RAILROADS;
TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION; LICENSES; PLANNING; NUCLEAR REGULATION; LAND USE;
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND
PROCUREMENT; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; NUCLEAR WASTE
POLICY ACT; NEVADA; YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEV.; LAWSUITS
99-H271-58 TESTIMONY
NO: 1 Feb. 10, 1999 p. 18-43
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
GUINN, KENNY C. (Governor, Nevada)
GIBBONS, JIM (Rep, R-Nev)
BERKLEY,
SHELLEY (Rep, D-Nev)
PHILLIPS, KEVIN (Mayor, Caliente,
Nev)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Concerns
about H.R. 45, citing unfairness to Nevada communities and residents; opposition
to use of Yucca Mountain site as nuclear waste
repository, with concerns about seismic activity.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste
storage programs, revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NEVADA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE; FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS;
FEDERAL-LOCAL RELATIONS; EARTHQUAKES
99-H271-58
TESTIMONY NO: 2 Feb. 10, 1999 p. 43-93
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
JACKSON, SHIRLEY A.
(Chairman, NRC)
BARRETT, LAKE H. (Acting Director, Office
of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, DOE)
COHON,
JARED L. (Chairman, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board)
PERCIASEPE, ROBERT W. (Assistant Administrator, Air and
Radiation, EPA)
SCHIFFER, STUART E. (Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Department of Justice)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Differing perspectives on H.R. 45; overall
merits of H.R. 45 approach, with recommendations; objections to bill as impeding
DOE ability to implement waste management policies; status of DOE viability
assessment of Yucca Mountain site, with importance of additional scientific
testing to determine suitability as a permanent repository.
Concerns that H.R. 45 would weaken public health and
safety protections; review of litigation concerning DOE contractual obligations
under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs,
revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; NUCLEAR
WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD; DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH
99-H271-58 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Feb. 10, 1999 p.
94-132
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
KOPPENDRAYER, LEROY (Commissioner, Minnesota Public
Utilities Commission; representing Nuclear Waste Strategy
Coalition)
STRAND, JOHN G. (Chairman, Michigan Public
Service Commission; representing National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners)
JOOS, DAVID W. (President and CEO,
Consumers Energy; representing Nuclear Energy Institute)
ABDOO, RICHARD A. (Chairman and CEO, Wisconsin Electric
Power Co)
CLAYBROOK, JOAN B. (President, Public Citizen;
also representing Nuclear Information and Resource Service and
Sierra Club)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Support for H.R. 45; concerns about delays in DOE
development of a permanent repository for
nuclear wastes; objections to H.R. 45 based on concerns about
interim storage facility provisions.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs, revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NUCLEAR WASTE STRATEGY COALITION
99-H271-58 TESTIMONY NO: 4 Mar. 12,
1999 p. 176-214
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
RICHARDSON, BILL (Secretary, DOE)
STATEMENT
AND DISCUSSION:
Perspectives on litigation concerning DOE
contractual obligations under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act;
opposition to H.R. 45, with review of Yucca Mountain site viability assessment
and related issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs, revision
