We also have to focus on preventing pipeline safety failures before they happen.
Fred Upton
The Public Record
For years, pipeline safety has been a topic that enjoys bipartisan cooperation and produces very effective legislation.
Prolonging onsite storage would add to the taxpayer burden by increasing the substantial liabilities that DOE has already incurred.
Developing a safe, permanent storage site for spent nuclear fuel is indeed essential to energy security as well as our national security, and that is not and should not be treated as a partisan issue.
Consumers have been paying into the Nuclear Waste Fund since 1983 with a promise of something in return: a permanent place to send the spent fuel away from the reactor sites.
The circumstances surrounding this administration's rush to pull the plug on Yucca are alarming as much as they are disappointing.
We will do what we can to rescue the Agency from the ditch that some have driven you into.
I share Ms. Eshoo's enthusiasm and Mr. Walden's as well by putting together a bipartisan plan that really gets to the finish line.





