Edward Markey actually said...

"In the latest version of the proposed decommissioning rule, the NRC would have no ability, none, to approve, change, or deny plants' decommissioning proposals known as post-shutdown decommissioning ac..."

"But I think you will find that the answer is in the negative."

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

"Just so that people can understand, if Entergy, the owner of the plant, had kept ownership and had begun the decommissioning, the State of Massachusetts would not have been able to intervene."