[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            HALT STORAGE OF NUCLEAR WASTE AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN

  (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, here we go again. The General Accounting 
Office, a nonpartisan congressional investigative agency, is calling on 
the President and the Department of Energy to indefinitely postpone its 
decision on whether to build a huge permanent centralized waste storage 
site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
  The GAO report calls the plan to bury waste at Yucca Mountain a 
failed scientific process, echoing the concern I and my fellow Nevadans 
have expressed for years.
  Yet the report goes on further; it warns that the plans the DOE has 
been showing to Congress and Nevadans may not describe the facilities 
that DOE would actually develop.
  Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that the plan to bury nuclear waste at 
Yucca Mountain has not only been an obscene waste of taxpayer money but 
also a huge conspiracy to misrepresent the facts and deceive the 
American public.
  It is time for the DOE to tell the truth. Storing nuclear waste at 
Yucca Mountain is not a safe plan, and I call upon my colleagues in the 
Congress to protect the American people and halt Yucca Mountain.

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