Senate panel silent on federal interim storage of nuclear waste

Washington (Platts)--14Jun2005

Senate appropriators did not address the question of federal interim storage 
of utility spent fuel in a $31.2-billion energy and water funding bill for 
fiscal 2006 that an Appropriations subcommittee approved today. The 
Appropriations Committee will take up the bill, which would fund DOE at
$25.04-billion next fiscal year, on June 16. Both subcommittee Chairman Pete
Domenici (R-N.M.) and the panel's ranking Democrat, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada,
maintained that interim storage was too complicated an issue to be handled
hastily as part of an appropriations bill as the House had done. Under the
Senate bill, the DOE nuclear waste program would receive $577-million next
fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. The suggested allocation is $84-million
below the House's suggested allowance and $74-million below the budget
request.

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