Make the fundamental decision about whether to use Fed corp as the Blue Ribbon Commission recommends.

I also know that the interests of New Mexico will be in very good hands.

What would be your first action to get this country started on a consent-based approach toward finding a final resting place for our spent fuel?

My personal opinion is at the moment, without a robust, discernible repository development program, the enthusiasm for moving early on consolidated storage will probably be short lived.

So instead of a my way or the highway, Federal Government calling the shots, you have the State in the car?

I don't refer to it as nuclear waste myself. I refer to it as a nuclear resource.

Many of the issues that arise along the way, what happened in the Waste Isolation Pilot Project was local people and State people were very worried about the safety issues.

A non-military development of nuclear energy.

Certainly the idea was a useful one, and other countries have tried it.

I want to thank you both for that joint testimony.

In my State, my guess is the same is true in Wyoming or Tennessee or New Mexico or any other State, nobody wants to have a dump in their neighborhood or in their community.

I come from the colony of New Sweden, where the first Swedes came to America, Wilmington, Delaware.

The status quo is not acceptable, and we have to be smarter than this.

A non-military environmental regulation and control of nuclear energy.

I think it is sensible.

The repository could be quite a number of years away.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. I want to welcome our witnesses.

You get rid of that systemic problem, you will not need a hearing like this today.

All right. Anybody else?

So we are trying to address this and work our way back to a real 90-10 rule where 10 percent of revenues have to come from someplace other than the Federal Government.

I think when we came back from Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, I think we have about $200, $250 a month.

Unfortunately, and we have some folks whose distance learning colleges and universities, some of them do a great job in screening people...

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