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Maria Cantwell: I bring up a couple of points made that are the crux of my concern about this legislation; that is, that section 3116 of…

On the recordMay 20, 2004
I bring up a couple of points made that are the crux of my concern about this legislation; that is, that section 3116 of the underlying bill, the Defense authorization bill, attempts to reclassify high-level nuclear waste into a low-level material and allow it to be disposed of in a different way. I object to that and I object to the process by which that legislation was drafted. The Senate Armed Services Committee does not have jurisdiction over the ability to reclassify waste. That is a change to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act drafted in 1982.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing concerns about the reclassification of nuclear waste in the Defense authorization bill.

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