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“Also, the committee's report language sites that this hush money is provided for local governments that give ``formal consent.'' This raises yet another question about the intent of this section. The law does not outline any process for giving formal consent, so how would the newly bribed localities be able to provide that consent? If you are looking for consent, I urge you to support H.R. 1364, the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act, which I introduced, along with my colleague Congressman Heck and Senators Reid and Heller. This bipartisan legislation sets out a formal consent process so that Nevada or Texas or New Mexico or any other State and affected local community or tribe that chooses to host a nuclear waste depository will have a process by which it can give consent for siting by the Federal Government. No community should have to face what we in Nevada have faced for the last few decades of having this pushed down our throat. Madam Chairman, I will also submit for the Record two articles outlining nuclear waste storage proposals that are supported in the State of Texas and the State of New Mexico. [West Texas Radio, Feb. 13, 2015] Company Wants to Expand Nuclear Waste Site in Texas (By Travis Bubenik) A Dallas-based company is looking to expand its nuclear waste site in rural West Texas into a longer-term storage site for high-level radioactive waste.…”