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On the recordOctober 29, 1997
the ratepayers of Louisiana have paid more than $134 million into the Nuclear Waste Fund only to see that money used for purposes other than those specified by the law which mandated the collections. one of the foremost improvements of the bill over current law are provisions which would ensure that monies collected from ratepayers will be used for the purposes for which they were intended under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act rather than being captured and used for other purposes because of discretionary spending limits imposed after the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was enacted.
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John Cooksey
Republican · Louisiana
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the use of funds from the Nuclear Waste Fund during a colloquy on a related bill.

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