[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 13558-13559]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-74. A concurrent resolution adopted by the General 
     Assembly of the State of Ohio urging the United States 
     Congress to provide an adequate budget for the Department of 
     Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish 
     rules relative to environmentally friendly energy; to the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

              Amended House Concurrent Resolution Number 9

       Whereas, Ohio has many finite natural energy resources; and
       Whereas, World energy demand and usage are expected to 
     increase; and
       Whereas, It is vital to the country's energy future to 
     provide abundant base-load power and peaking energy-on-demand 
     power affordably; and
       Whereas, Extending Ohio's current energy boom will rest in 
     creating a long-term energy plan and developing clean and 
     affordable energy technologies such as liquid core molten 
     salt reactors and small modular reactors; and
       Whereas, America possesses a nearly inexhaustible supply of 
     thorium and uranium (more than a billion years) that 
     dramatically exceeds all known potential energy reserves; and
       Whereas, The elements thorium and uranium have the 
     practical potential to provide unlimited energy resources for 
     Ohioans and Americans on demand in the near future and to 
     provide many other tangible benefits; and
       Whereas, Better utilization of thorium and uranium in 
     specially designed reactors such as molten salt reactors, 
     including liquid fluoride thorium reactors, can provide 
     energy security from other nations by utilizing Ohio coal and 
     a reactor's nuclear heat energy to produce an abundance of 
     synthetic liquid transportation fuels. These synthetic fuels 
     can be produced for many future generations of Ohioans in a 
     safe, affordable, and in a most environmentally friendly 
     manner; and
       Whereas, The efficient use of thorium or uranium in a 
     specially designed molten salt reactor allows for greatly 
     increased environmentally friendly energy production that 
     improves the economics of many recycling technologies and 
     raises the standard of living; and

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       Whereas, It is incumbent upon Ohio legislators to be 
     forward-thinking in addressing the future energy challenges 
     for the next generation of Ohioans; and
       Whereas, Ohio is uniquely capable to commercialize small 
     modular reactors, liquid core molten salt reactors, and 
     integral fast reactors with its research and development 
     assets of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
     Plum Brook (Sandusky, Ohio), the National Aeronautics and 
     Space Administration John H. Glenn Research Center 
     (Cleveland, Ohio area), the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base 
     (Dayton, Ohio), USEC's uranium-enrichment facility (Piketon, 
     Ohio), The Ohio State University's nuclear-research-and-
     development facilities (Columbus, Ohio), and other private 
     companies and nonprofit organizations that specialize in 
     nuclear-technology development in Ohio; and
       Whereas, The academic, scientific, manufacturing, and 
     business communities in Ohio have some of the best talent and 
     research and development records in the world. Development of 
     this groundbreaking and economic game-changing technology 
     would serve Ohio's and America's economy better than current 
     federal efforts to develop this technology in partnership 
     with China; and
       Whereas, Advanced technology using thorium and uranium can 
     affordably provide medical isotopes of materials for medical 
     uses such as treating cancer and HIV/AIDS, diagnostic 
     procedures, and improved health care; and
       Whereas, S. 99, the ``American Medical Isotopes Production 
     Act of 2011,'' was signed into law by President Barack Obama 
     on January 2, 2013, and mandates a reliable domestic supply 
     of molybdenum-99 for medical imaging and diagnostics; and
       Whereas, Molybdenum-99 is used in more than sixteen million 
     medical procedures annually in the United States; and
       Whereas, No domestic supply of molybdenum-99 currently 
     exists, and present suppliers use old reactors that result in 
     frequent supply disruptions; and
       Whereas, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, charged with 
     licensing nuclear reactors, is not well-funded for 
     establishing procedures for new, advanced reactor designs 
     based on different architectures from today's fleet of light 
     water reactors; and
       Whereas, Small modular reactors and liquid core molten salt 
     reactors represent a business opportunity that Ohio's 
     manufacturing base is well-suited to exploit. This could 
     potentially result in creating forty thousand manufacturing 
     jobs in total within Ohio, because these jobs have the 
     ability to complement Ohio's coal industry, oil industry, and 
     natural gas hydraulic fracturing industry by increasing jobs 
     in those industries: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That we, the members of the 131st General 
     Assembly of the State of Ohio, make the following 
     recommendation for solutions to energy and medical-isotopes 
     production; and be it further
       Resolved, That the State of Ohio shall create a long-term 
     energy plan that addresses the long-term energy needs of the 
     country; and be it further
       Resolved, That the State of Ohio shall encourage the 
     research and development of liquid-core-molten-salt-reactors 
     and small-modular-reactors technologies as a long-term 
     solution to Ohio's energy needs; and be it further
       Resolved, That the State of Ohio shall advocate that the 
     Congress of the United States mandate, and provide an 
     adequate budget for, the Department of Energy and the Nuclear 
     Regulatory Commission to establish rules for manufacturing, 
     siting, and licensing of small modular reactors and liquid 
     core molten salt reactors to be built and operated in the 
     United States by private industry for the production of 
     energy and medical isotopes; and be it further
       Resolved, That the State of Ohio shall invest in, seek to 
     acquire grants for, implement programs for, encourage its 
     institutions of higher learning to conduct research into, and 
     attract companies for the development of future technologies 
     that will provide greater energy resources more affordably, 
     abundantly, and in a more environmentally friendly manner 
     than is being done at present; and be it further
       Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives 
     transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the 
     President of the United States, the Secretary of the United 
     States Department of Energy, the Commissioners of the Nuclear 
     Regulatory Commission, the Speaker and Clerk of the United 
     States House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore 
     and Secretary of the United States Senate, each member of the 
     Ohio Congressional delegation, and the news media of Ohio.
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       POM-75. A petition by a citizen from the State of Texas 
     urging the United States Congress to propose an amendment to 
     the United States Constitution relative to establishing a 
     procedure by which the President of the United States could 
     be removed from office by means of a nationwide recall 
     election; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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