Kent Conrad: “Let me ask this question. We do not have any nuclear facility in North Dakota. We have some customers in North Dakota…”

“Let me ask this question. We do not have any nuclear facility in North Dakota. We have some customers in North Dakota who are part of the NSP. NSP has a nuclear plant in Minnesota. So some of our customers in North Dakota have been paying into a fund for some period of time to handle their spent fuel. But as I am hearing the Senator, we could have here a transfer of costs to other taxpayers in North Dakota to take on what would be a Federal facility. In other words, the taxpayers of North Dakota, most of whom have not been benefited by nuclear power, would be asked to pay as Federal taxpayers the Federal share of this facility that would be located in Nevada. So would I be correct in assuming that North Dakota taxpayers would be asked to take on this burden which has been created by an industry that has been benefiting folks largely not in the State of North Dakota?”