[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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