REFUSE DISPOSAL

Bills and resolutions

Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act: amend relative to labeling of cigarette packages with anti-littering messages (see S. 2758), S4155 [8MY]

Hazardous substances: enhance management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, protect public health and safety, and ensure territorial integrity and security of Yucca Mountain repository (see S. 2589), S3212 [6AP] (see H.R. 5360), H2584 [11MY]

Railroads: clarify that State and local permitting requirements relative to the processing, sorting, or transporting of solid waste apply to rail carriers (see H.R. 4930), H867 [9MR]

———exclude solid waste disposal from the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board (see H.R. 4821), H450 [28FE]

Surface Transportation Board: establish certain rules for approval of waste management company applications to become rail carriers (see H.R. 4870), H565 [2MR]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Energy: prohibit using funding from the Nuclear Waste Fund to carry out activities of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, H3184 [24MY]

Developing countries: make access to safe water and sanitation a specific policy objective of U.S. foreign assistance programs, H1063 [16MR], H3531, H3535-H3537 [8JN]

Hazardous substances: prohibit funding for promotional program geared toward children that advocates locating a nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain, NV, H3184, H3185 [24MY]

———terminate promotional program geared toward children that advocates locating a nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain, NV, H1323, H1368 [30MR]

———Yucca Mountain, NV, nuclear waste disposal site funding, H278 [15FE], H1456 [5AP], H3160 [24MY]

Recycling: promote, H4786 [28JN]

Solid waste: sewage pipeline construction between Sioux City, IA, and Sioux City, NE, H2790 [18MY]

Remarks in Senate

Texts of

S. 2589, Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act, S3237-S3239 [6AP]