[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 62 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 3860. Mr. PETERS (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3801 proposed by Mr.
Alexander (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) to the bill H.R. 2028,
making appropriations for energy and water development and related
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of title V, add the following:
Sec. 5__. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used in any way to authorize construction of a repository
(as defined in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of
1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101)) for the permanent disposal of nuclear
energy waste within--
(1) Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron (including Lake St.
Clair), Lake Michigan, or Lake Superior;
(2) the connecting channels (including Saint Mary's River,
Saint Clair River, Detroit River, Niagara River, or Saint
Lawrence River to the Canadian Border); or
(3) any stream, river, lake, or other body of water within
the drainage basin of the lakes described in paragraph (1).
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