RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

Affidavits

Savannah River Site nuclear waste storage facility cleanup: David E. Wilson, Jr., South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, S6399 [3JN]

Articles and editorials

Bigger Peril—Dirty Bombs, S7127 [22JN]

Choosing the Wrong Side, S5911 [20MY]

Dangerous Games—Federal Effort To Bury Nuclear Wastes at West Valley Is Unconscionable, S5910 [20MY], S6409 [3JN]

Debate Needed on Nuclear Waste, S5912 [20MY]

Fix Energy Department, Not the Law It's Breaking, S5911 [20MY]

Former Governors Raise Concern About DOE Bill on Nuclear Waste, S6398 [3JN]

Remembering Chernobyl, E710 [29AP]

Rescuing SRS Cleanup, S6420 [3JN]

Senate Should Halt Nuclear Waste Plan, S5911 [20MY]

Shortcut on Nuclear Waste, S6402 [3JN]

State Cleanup Faces All-or-All Proposition, S5911 [20MY]

Too Slow on Nukes, S7126 [22JN]

Bills and resolutions

Arctic Research and Policy Act: improve (see S. 2504), S6481 [4JN]

Armed Forces: identify members exposed to depleted uranium during military service and provide health testing of such members (see H.R. 4463), H3439 (see H.R. 4463), H3539 [20MY]

Dept. of Labor: provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination (see S. 2139), S1683 [26FE] (see H.R. 3864), H699 [26FE]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (see S. 2047), S370 [2FE] (see H.R. 4388), H3229 [18MY]

Nuclear Waste Fund: reclassify fees as offsetting collections (see H.R. 3981), H1229 [17MR]

———redirect into research, development, and utilization of risk-decreasing technologies for onsite storage and reduction of radiation levels of nuclear waste (see H.R. 4627), H4646 [21JN]

Nuclear weapons: carry out activites to bring to market effective medical countermeasures to radiation from a nuclear or radiological attack (see H.R. 5000), H6705 [22JY]

———promote national security by facilitating the removal of potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites around the world (see S. 2310), S4024 [8AP] (see H.R. 4212), H2372 [22AP]

States: make the consent of Congress to certain compacts contingent on party States sharing the long-term liability for damages caused by radioactive releases from regional facilities (see S. 2518), S6803 [15JN]

Veterans: codify certain additional diseases as establishing a presumption of service-connection when occurring in veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during active duty (see H.R. 4172), H2198 [20AP]

———revise eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service (see H.R. 5137), H7574 [23SE]

Court documents

Summary of argument on Natural Resources Defense Council case on nuclear waste site cleanup, S6407 [3JN]

Letters

Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection: Nanette A. Nadeau, S7126 [22JN]

Consequence management of chemical, biological, or terrorist attacks: Nanette A. Nadeau, S7126 [22JN]

Dept. of Labor coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees: Alan M. Varela, New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration, S6843 [16JN]

———James Conrad, Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, S6842 [16JN]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program special cohort rule: several Senators, S1693 [26FE]

Facilitate cleanup of nuclear waste sites: Aiken County, SC, State legislative delegation, S6404 [3JN]

———Angela Viney, South Carolina Wildlife Federation, S6401 [3JN]

———Charles Weiss, Greater Aiken, SC, Chamber of Commerce, S6405 [3JN]

———David H. Wilkins, South Carolina House of Representatives, S6404 [3JN]

———Dell Isham, Sierra Club, S6401 [3JN]

———Fred B. Cavanaugh, Mayor of Aiken, SC, S6405 [3JN]

———George E. Pataki, Governor of New York, S6409 [3JN]

———Henry McMaster, South Carolina Attorney General, S6404 [3JN]

———John T. Conway, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, S5905 [20MY]

———Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina, S5930 [20MY], S6400 [3JN]

———Nils J. Diaz, NRC, S5921 [20MY]

———Robert W. King, Jr., South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, S6404 [3JN]

———Ronnie Young, Aiken County, SC, Council, S6405 [3JN]

———Senator Bingaman, S5935 [20MY]

———Senators Murray and Cantwell and Representative Doc Hastings, S6403 [3JN]

———several State environmental agencies, S6407 [3JN]

———Tex G. Hall, National Congress of American Indians, S6420 [3JN]

———William F. Kane, South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environment Control, S5932 [20MY]

Ground-based midcourse missile interceptors funding: James O. Ellis, Jr., S7122 [22JN]

Lists

Senate staff assisting in efforts on Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program coverage for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination, S10950 [9OC]

Messages

National Emergency Relative to Russian Disposal of Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons: President Bush, H4207 [16JN]

Proposals

Legislation dealing with nuclear waste site cleanup funding, S6415 [3JN]

Remarks in House

Arms control: nonproliferation and disarmament programs funding, H5118, H5119, H5123, H5124 [25JN]

Dept. of Energy: facilitate cleanup of nuclear waste sites, H3424, H3425 [20MY], H5125 [25JN]

———prohibit funding to reclassify high-level radioactive waste as ``waste incidental to reprocessing'' relative to removal of waste stored in underground tanks, H5126, H5127 [25JN]

Dept. of Labor: provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination (H.R. 3864), E258 [26FE]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program: improve, H8987, H9001, H9005 [8OC], E1967 [11OC]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (H.R. 4388), E897 [18MY]

Hazardous substances: circuit court decision on Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste disposal site radiation level standard, H5797 [15JY]

———court ruling on radiation standards relative to use of Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, H6877 [8SE]

———Savannah River, SC, nuclear waste disposal site funding, H5125 [25JN]

———Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste disposal site funding, H5092, H5096, H5124, H5125 [25JN]

Nuclear weapons: promote national security by facilitating the removal of potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites around the world (H.R. 4212), H3493 [20MY]

Ukraine: anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, E687 [28AP], E710 [29AP]

Remarks in Senate

Committee on Armed Services (Senate): jurisdiction over matters dealing with the cleanup of defense nuclear waste sites, S6414 [3JN]

Dept. of Defense: antiterrorism programs funding through reductions in ground-based midcourse missile interceptors, S7092-S7100 [21JN], S7120-S7127 [22JN]

Dept. of Energy: facilitate cleanup of nuclear waste sites, S5903-S5907, S5909-S5921, S5929-S5933, S5935, S5936 [20MY], S6053 [21MY], S6396-S6421 [3JN], S6848-S6850 [16JN]

Dept. of Labor: provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination, S6837-S6847 [16JN], S10950 [9OC], S11288 [11OC]

———provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination (S. 2139), S1693 [26FE]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program, S6971 [17JN], S7219-S7221 [23JN]

———include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (S. 2047), S375 [2FE], S6913-S6915 [17JN]

Hazardous substances: Savannah River, SC, nuclear waste disposal site funding, S11288 [11OC]

———Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste disposal site funding, S2685 [11MR]

National security: accelerate removal or security of fissile and radioactive materials at vulnerable sites worldwide, S5771, S5774 [19MY]

Nuclear weapons: promote national security by facilitating the removal of potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites around the world (S. 2310), S4049 [8AP]

Protocol to the Agreement of the International Atomic Energy Agency for Application of Safeguards in the U.S.: ratification, S3511-S3515 [31MR], S3561 [1AP]

Reports filed

Protocol to the Agreement of the International Atomic Energy Agency for Application of Safeguards in the U.S.: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 108-12), S3213 [26MR]

Reclassify Nuclear Waste Fund Fees as Offsetting Collections: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3981) (H. Rept. 108-594), H5535 [12JY]

Resolutions of ratification

Protocol to the Agreement of the International Atomic Energy Agency for Application of Safeguards in the U.S., S3213 [26MR], S3511 [31MR]

Rules

Standing Rules of the Senate: committee jurisdiction clarifications, S6414 [3JN]

Texts of

S. 2047, include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, S376 [2FE]

S. 2139, Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act, S1694 [26FE]

S. 2310, promote national security by facilitating the removal of potential nuclear weapons materials from vulnerable sites around the world, S4050 [8AP]

Transcripts

Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Hearing: Senator Allard and Jessie Roberson, Dept. of Energy, S5931 [20MY]