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99 CIS S 31139
TITLE:
Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy
CIS-NO:
99-S311-39
SOURCE: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-105
DATE: Mar. 24, 1999
LENGTH: iii+99 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1040-A; 1040-B
SUDOC: Y4.EN2:S.HRG.106-105
SUMMARY:
Hearing to consider S. 608, 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 reactor fuel and high-level
nuclear waste.
Includes a provision to require
DOE to construct and operate in Nevada a centralized interim storage facility
for nuclear wastes transported from other storage sites,
pending construction of a permanent repository for
nuclear wastes at Yucca Mountain, Nev.
Supplementary material (p. 73-99) includes witnesses' written replies to
Committee questions and submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Nuclear waste
storage programs, revision
BILLS: 106
S. 608
DESCRIPTORS:
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; NUCLEAR
REGULATION; TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; NUCLEAR
WASTE POLICY ACT; NEVADA; YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEV.
99-S311-39 TESTIMONY NO:
1 Mar. 24, 1999 p. 6-9
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
GRAMS, ROD (Sen, R-Minn)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Inconsistencies in
Administration nuclear energy policy.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs,
revision
99-S311-39 TESTIMONY NO: 2
Mar. 24, 1999 p. 10-16
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
REID, HARRY (Sen, D-Nev)
BRYAN,
RICHARD H. (Sen, D-Nev)
STATEMENTS:
Objections to S. 608, focusing on interim storage facility
provision.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs, revision
99-S311-39 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Mar. 24,
1999 p. 19-22
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GIBBONS, JIM (Rep, R-Nev)
BERKLEY,
SHELLEY (Rep, D-Nev)
STATEMENTS:
Objections
to S. 608.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear waste storage programs, revision
99-S311-39 TESTIMONY NO: 4 Mar. 24,
1999 p. 25-71, 73-87
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
JACKSON, SHIRLEY A. (Chairman, NRC)
BARRETT, LAKE H. (Acting Director, Office of Civilian
Radioactive Waste Management, DOE)
STRAND, JOHN G.
(Chairman, Michigan Public Service Commission; representing National Association
of Regulatory Utility Commissioners)
NYE, ERLE (Chairman
and Chief Executive, Texas Utilities Co.; representing Nuclear
Energy Institute)
MARIOTTE, MICHAEL (Executive Director,
Nuclear Information and Resource Service)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Differing views on S. 608;
perspectives on various nuclear waste disposal policy issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Nuclear
waste storage programs, revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS;
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 
