The proposed decommissioning rule doesn't allow the decommissioning trust fund to be used for spent fuel management.

Has the NRC ever asked a plant to modify a submitted PSDAR?

Would you pursue legal action then against the company if that happened?

Those suggestions were disregarded. And the frustration you hear from stakeholders and residents is the result of that disregard for the requests which had been made.

Let's put a process in place that doesn't necessarily elicit this level of public skepticism because it has been transparent.

We need a restoration of trust, so that we improve the rule and improve community engagement.

Has any plant ever been told that it needs a new NEPA review?

We have to make sure that all of those promises are kept.

Because an exemption the NRC has allowed to Holtec in the transfer of the license allows Holtec to stop paying for emergency planning to area towns.

Senator Markey's Nuclear Waste Task Force would set up a process where we can hash out what consent really means.

I appreciate that, too, because this is my 45th year in Congress.

I would ask you to respond in a very timely fashion, especially since you are going to be having a public hearing up here.

We will be bringing that message back to Washington, DC.

No one has ever done this before in congressional history.

I think the people who are going to be attending the public hearing have a right to know what the answers to those questions are before you have the public hearing.

But I prefer just to deal with it as something that is urgent, and now because I had my first meeting on the Pilgrim Plant in 1979.

I think it is very important that Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute be a part of this process.

Will the Nuclear Regulatory Commission follow the advice of the IAEA and consider the environmental and political implications of allowing Holtec to dump 1 million gallons of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay?