[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 55 (Wednesday, May 6, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S4443]
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SENATE RESOLUTION 224--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING AN 
   INTERNATIONAL PROJECT TO EVALUATE AND FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF 
                         ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

  Mr. STEVENS (for himself, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Hollings, Mr. 
Inouye, and Mr. Murkowski) submitted the following resolution; which 
was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 224

       Whereas currently in the post Cold-War world, there are new 
     opportunities to facilitate international political and 
     scientific cooperation on cost-effective and advanced 
     innovative nuclear waste technologies;
       Whereas there is increasing public interest in monitoring 
     and remediation of nuclear wastes; and
       Whereas it is in the best interest of the United States to 
     explore and develop options with the international community 
     to facilitate the exchange of evolving advanced nuclear waste 
     technologies: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--the 
     President should instruct the Secretary of Energy, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 
     Defense, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency, and other officials as appropriate, to consider the 
     Advanced Technology Research Project (known as ``ATRP'') and 
     report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
     the Senate on:
       (1) whether the United States should encourage the 
     establishment of an international project to facilitate the 
     evaluation and international exchange of data (including cost 
     data) relating to advanced nuclear waste technologies, 
     including technologies for solid and liquid radioactive 
     wastes and contaminated soils and sediments;
       (2) whether such a project could be funded privately 
     through industry, public interest, and scientific 
     organizations and administered by an international non-
     governmental, nonprofit organization, with operations in the 
     United States, Russia, Japan, and other countries that have 
     an interest in developing such technologies; and
       (3) any legislation that the Secretary believes would be 
     required to enable such a project to be undertaken.

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