On the recordMarch 22, 2000
I do not know why we are here, to be honest. We passed back in 1982 a bill which said, yes, in fact, the Federal Government would take possession of spent nuclear fuel beginning on January 31, 1998. Why are we here? I think we have been clear all along, Federal policy has been that the Federal Government would take responsibility for spent nuclear fuel. In return for that, ratepayers have paid over $13 billion in additional fees that were supposed to go to help develop a nuclear spent fuel repository. That money has been collected. Ratepayers in my region have paid over a billion dollars, and yet we are still arguing here on the House Floor whether or not the Federal Government is going to be responsible for this spent fuel. There is no question the Federal Government is responsible. We should not have to even be here passing a bill.
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