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On behalf of the Nye County Conmiission, along with eight other Nevada counties (out of a total
of seventeen) I strongly urge you to support the Senate bill to jump start the licensing hearing for
the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. This position is in accordance with the law,
supports the objective scientific studies on the safety of the repository and has the support of local
governments in Nevada. It is the right thing to do.
As you know, funding for the license process has been denied for nine years on purely political
grounds. The overwhelming body of scientific studies done on the proposed repository have
demonstrated that it can be built and operated safely. This includes the safety reviews done by
the professionals at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Further, the funding we are
requesting will be used to conduct further scientific reviews by the NRC. The opponents of the
repository will have every opportunity to show that the repository is unsafe, if they can make that
case based on facts.
Despite the claims by the State of Nevada that everyone in the State opposes the license
proceeding, nine of the rural counties that surround Yucca Mountain favor the resumption of the
license proceeding. Nye County the site county has favored a full and fair review of the
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science by the NRC for years. We want decisions to be made on Yucca Mountain to be based on
facts and science and not empty rhetoric and fear mongering.
As long as Yucca Mountain is stalled, nuclear waste is gathering at existing and closed nuclear
power plants all over the country. It is far better for the American public to have the waste stored
safely in a remote desert mountain than to be in locations near population centers, lakes and
rivers.
Again, please \d the resumption of the license proceeding for Yucca Mountain.
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Nyc Cunty Bod of Commissioners
Nuclear Waste issues representative
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