Bill Text: GA HR1823 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: United States Department of Defense, Congress, and administration; continue Yucca Mountain development; urge
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - House Committee Favorably Reported [HR1823 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR1823-Introduced.html
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House
Resolution 1823
By:
Representatives Murphy of the
120th,
Harbin of the
118th,
Frazier of the
123rd,
Howard of the
121st,
Sims of the
119th,
and others
A
RESOLUTION
Urging
the United States Department of Energy, the United States Congress, and the
current administration to continue the development of Yucca Mountain as the site
for permanent storage of defense nuclear waste and commercial spent nuclear fuel
and requesting that the funding of $150 million for the review of the Yucca
Mountain license application and future activities of the nuclear waste disposal
program remain intact; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS,
the Savannah River Site (SRS) is a critical part of the United States
government's national defense infrastructure, having served for more than half a
century as a production facility for materials utilized in the country's nuclear
weapons program; and
WHEREAS,
the citizens who reside in a two-state region surrounding the SRS have, over the
years, expressed strong support and appreciation for the mission and
contributions to national security made by the SRS and for the electric power
produced by commercial nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina;
and
WHEREAS,
the federal government has pledged for years that commercial spent nuclear fuel
and high-level defense nuclear waste such as that generated at the SRS would be
permanently stored in a specially designed and constructed underground
repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada; and
WHEREAS,
the citizens of the SRS region have fully and confidently relied on federal
assurances that a permanent repository would be available for commercial spent
nuclear fuel and high-level defense nuclear waste; and
WHEREAS,
the federal government has announced that it is abandoning plans to complete the
planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert and that an
acceptable substitute option does not currently exist; and
WHEREAS,
the federal government's decision to abandon Yucca Mountain means that the SRS
may become a permanent repository for defense nuclear waste in violation of
long-standing federal assurances to the contrary; and
WHEREAS,
permanent storage of defense nuclear waste in the Savannah River Site region is
not compatible with the best interests of the area's citizens, economic future,
or image as a great place to live and work.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of
this body urge the United States Department of Energy, the United States
Congress, and the current administration to continue the development of Yucca
Mountain as the site for permanent storage of defense nuclear waste and
commercial spent nuclear fuel and request that the funding of $150 million for
the review of the Yucca Mountain license application and future activities of
the nuclear waste disposal program remain intact.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to United States
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, each member of the Georgia
congressional delegation, and President Barack Obama.
