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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