[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 3, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
OPPOSE H.R. 1270, THE NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT
(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, while Members of this House were in their
districts during the August recess, ABC News reported to a national
television audience just what I have been saying in this very well for
the past 8 months, that despite numerous scientific evidence to the
contrary, the Federal Government is going to find Yucca Mountain, NV,
as a suitable site for nuclear waste storage.
The news report highlighted that despite problems with fragile rock
formation, migrating groundwater, volcanoes, and active earthquakes,
Federal agencies always find a way to ignore them first by lowering the
standards and then by lowering the safety standards to the site
suitability. More than $3 billion has already been spent on Yucca
Mountain, and the site has been found to be scientifically unsuitable.
Later this year, Congress will consider a bill that proposes we spend
billions more of taxpayer dollars to fund another study that will tell
Washington bureaucrats just what they want to hear. This is not just a
Nevada issue; this is an issue of safety for all Americans. I urge my
colleagues to get the true facts and oppose the H.R. 1270.
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