I could not stress more urgently to my colleagues the counterproductivity of such a move.
Jim Risch
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Jim Risch is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Risch previously held the position of lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2009 and served in the Idaho State Senate from 2002 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as government accountability and land management, reflecting the interests of his constituents in Idaho.
No matter what happens, no matter what kind of an application is made for use of the land, it is immediately filed by a NEPA lawsuit.
Let me tell you briefly after a considerable amount of litigation the State and the DOE entered into an agreement whereby the DOE would remove the--all of essentially the nuclear waste that was left over from the cold war.
The DOE agreed that they would remove the waste. They're doing well. They're keeping up with the contract.
Unfortunately there's material that is not qualified for the wip site and it was anticipated that that would go into Yucca Mountain.
I thought the only two people on the face of this planet that believed that Israel would allow Iran to completely develop a nuclear weapon were the President and the Ayatollah in Iran.





