[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 57 (Tuesday, May 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2178]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         TAXPAYERS SHOULD NOT PAY FOR CLEANUP OF NUCLEAR WASTE

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, who should be responsible for paying the 
$2.3 billion price tag for transporting nuclear waste? Should it be the 
nuclear power industry, who created and profited from it, or the 
American taxpayer?
  Legislation now pending before the House will force taxpayers to pick 
up the tab for moving this lethal garbage through their own communities 
and maybe even through their neighborhoods. On top of that, this 
legislation would also use American tax dollars to pay for the storage 
of nuclear waste.
  I think most Americans would agree that the cost of transporting and 
storing these hazardous materials should not have to be paid by 
innocent American taxpayers, but rather by those responsible, the 
nuclear power industry.
  Let us save America's hard earned tax dollars and return the 
responsibility of waste to the big power companies.

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