[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           NUCLEAR WASTE BILL

  (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, the nuclear waste bill currently before the 
House is a bill that will destroy the environment and endanger the 
lives of our constituents. In a letter to my office, Deputy Secretary 
of Energy Charles B. Curtis stated the following: ``If S. 104 and its 
companion bill, H.R. 1270, were presented to the President in its 
current form, the President would veto the bill.'' Mr. Curtis goes on 
to say: ``This bill would provide no practical opportunity to designate 
an alternative to Yucca Mountain as an interim storage site because it 
does not provide enough time to designate, license and construct a 
facility at another site by the year 2002.''
  The situation is very clear. This bill could potentially devastate 
our districts, the environment in our districts, and will be vetoed by 
the President. Is it really worth voting to destroy the environment in 
order to bail out the nuclear power companies on a bill that has no 
chance of becoming law?

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