Harry Reid: “Native Americans have joined together almost in unison against this legislation. Native Americans also have an…”

“Native Americans have joined together almost in unison against this legislation. Native Americans also have an organization called National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans, NECONA. They have said this legislation is extremely bad. They have done this in the form of a letter written on March 31 of this year: [D]eveloping a storage facility now would jeopardize the repository program and has the added risk of prejudicing any future decision about the suitability of that site. . . The DOE lists 109 cities of over 100,000 people which would be impacted. Dozens of our tribes would also be impacted, and the most recent DOE survey of tribal and state capabilities to deal with nuclear transportation accidents revealed many serious gaps in preparedness. Seventy-one tribes in North America have declared their lands to be Nuclear Free Zones.”