Key Votes
S 104 - Nuclear Waste Disposal bill - Key Vote
National Key Votes
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- S 104 - Nuclear Waste Disposal bill
- S Amdt 31 - Yucca Mountain Alternate Sites amendment
- SF 328 - Funding for Education and Employment Training
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (65-34) - April 15, 1997 (Key vote)
Title: Nuclear Waste Disposal bill
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that would revise the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.
Highlights:
- Establishes the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management within the Department of Energy.
- Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to set safety guidelines for handling of wastes.
- Authorizes the Department of Energy to build a temporary storage facility for the nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
- Designates Yucca Mountain a permanent radioactive waste dump.
Calls for the President :
- To designate a site for an interim storage facility if the current Yucca Mountain site is deemed unsustainable.
- To exempt the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Savannah River, and the Oak Ridge sites from consideration as interm storage facilities.
Calls for the Secretary of Energy:
- To develop and operate a management system for the storage and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.
- To store sent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in an interim storage facility no later than 18 months after an interim disposal site has been designated.
- To use components and manufactured in the U.S. to transport nuclear wastes and incorporate private sector participation in implementing the Act.
- To mandate public education and training for jurisdictions where waste materials will be transported.
- To make grants to affected Indian tribes or local governments to monitor and review the impact of the Yucca Mountain site.
Sponsors
- Frank H. Murkowski (AK - ) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Edmond Spencer Abraham (MI - ) (Out Of Office)
- John D. Ashcroft (MO - ) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher S. 'Kit' Bond (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Samuel D. 'Sam' Brownback (KS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Conrad R. Burns (MT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thad Cochran (MS - R)
- Paul D. Coverdell (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Larry E. Craig (ID - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael B. 'Mike' Enzi (WY - R)
- Duncan McLauchlin 'Lauch' Faircloth (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rodney 'Rod' Grams (MN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles T. 'Chuck' Hagel (NE - R) (Out Of Office)
- Orrin G. Hatch (UT - R)
- Jesse Helms (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Ernest F. 'Fritz' Hollings (SC - ) (Out Of Office)
- Y. Tim Hutchinson (AR - R) (Out Of Office)
- James Merrill 'Jim' Jeffords (VT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Dirk Kempthorne (ID - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Kyl (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Carl Levin (MI - D)
- Chester Trent Lott Sr. (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Connie Mack (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles S. Robb (VA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charles Patrick 'Pat' Roberts (KS - R)
- Richard J. 'Rick' Santorum (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert Clinton 'Bob' Smith (NH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Arlen Specter (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Craig Thomas (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Strom Thurmond (SC - R) (Out Of Office)
- John William Warner (VA - R) (Out Of Office)
