William Bryan: “What this amendment does is simply incorporate into the bill provisions that exist in the contract. My colleagues will…”

“What this amendment does is simply incorporate into the bill provisions that exist in the contract. My colleagues will recall that under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the Department of Energy was directed to enter into contracts with the various utilities that were involved in generating high-level nuclear waste, and so what we have done, my colleague and I from Nevada, is to have incorporated verbatim other than perhaps in the context there may be some grammatical changes, but verbatim the remedies that are provided in those contracts. They are found in article 9 of the contract, and the contract provides what occurs if a delay, referring to the delay of the opening of the repository, is unavoidable delay, and subparagraph (b) deals with avoidable delays. So there has been talk that somehow this court case now casts a different light on everything, and as the Secretary of Energy indicated in her letter to each of us, that case absolutely has no impact on the debate.”