Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2019
United States116th CongressS-721Senate
Updated: Mar 7, 2019
Summary
Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2019 This bill prohibits the Department of Energy from licensing, planning, developing, or constructing a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada until the Office of Management and Budget conducts a study on the economic viability of alternative uses of the site and Congress holds a hearing on the findings. (A nuclear waste repository is a site used for storing high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.)
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Latest companion bill action
HR-1619: Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Introduced in Senate
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