Question: What Governor resided over the nuclear waste area located on federal land?
Context: The Sagebrush Rebellion was a movement during the 1970s and 1980s that sought major changes to federal land control, use and disposal policy in the American West where, in 13 western states, federal land holdings include between 20% and 85% of a state's area.  Notably, supporters of this movement wanted more state and local control over these lands, if not outright transfer of them to state and local authorities and/or privatization.  As much of the land in question is sagebrush steppe, supporters adopted the name Sagebrush Rebellion.  The sentiment survives into the 21st century with pressure from some individual citizens, politicians, and organized groups especially with respect to livestock grazing, mineral extraction, and other economic development policy for these lands. Lake Karachay (Russian: Карача́й ), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in central Russia.  Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40).  Today the lake is completely infilled, acting as "a near-surface permanent and dry nuclear waste storage facility." The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their natural condition.  Activity on formally designated wilderness areas is coordinated by the National Wilderness Preservation System.  Wilderness areas are managed by four federal land management agencies: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.  The term "wilderness" is defined as "an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain" and "an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions."  As of 2015, there are 765 designated wilderness areas, totaling 109,129,657 acre , or about 4.5% of the area of the United States. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is to be a deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high level radioactive waste in the United States.  The site is located on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 80 mi northwest of the Las Vegas Valley. The Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF) is a waste disposal facility located at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Washington, U.S..  Built in 1996, ERDF collects low-level waste, mixed waste, and other hazardous materials that are generated at Hanford.  It does not collect any radioactive waste or other hazardous materials from other sites or the public.  The hazardous waste dump was designed to be expanded as needed.  The main storage facilities consist of single layer tanks that hold in all more than 17 million tons of nuclear waste.  As of 2011, two new super tanks which hold double the amount of the single layer tanks were installed, providing safer levels of radioactivity in the surrounding ground areas and water sheds.  Liners were previously installed to collect liquid released by the tanks or rain water that may seep in.  The ERDF does not collect liquid by-products but they take the necessary precautions to keep the surrounding environment safe. Nuclear Waste Institute is a large German research center at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where R&D in the field of safe disposal of nuclear waste is being provided.  Located 1 kilometer East from Linkenheim-Hochstetten. James Leroy Acord (19 October 1944 – 9 January 2011) was an artist who worked directly with radioactive materials.  He attempted to create sculpture and events that probed the history of nuclear engineering and asked questions about the long-term storage of nuclear waste.  For 15 years he lived in Richland, Washington, the dormitory town for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, at one time home to nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium-processing complexes and the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States.  His major ambition while there was to build a "nuclear Stonehenge" on a heavily contaminated area of land in the site, incorporating twelve uranium breeder-blanket assemblies. Nuclear ethics is a cross-disciplinary field of academic and policy-relevant study in which the problems associated with nuclear warfare, nuclear deterrence, nuclear arms control, nuclear disarmament, or nuclear energy are examined through one or more ethical or moral theories or frameworks.  In contemporary security studies, the problems of nuclear warfare, deterrence, proliferation, and so forth are often understood strictly in political, strategic, or military terms.  In the study of international organizations and law, however, these problems are also understood in legal terms.  Nuclear ethics assumes that the very real possibilities of human extinction, mass human destruction, or mass environmental damage which could result from nuclear warfare are deep ethical or moral problems.  Specifically, it assumes that the outcomes of human extinction, mass human destruction, or environmental damage count as moral evils. Another area of inquiry concerns future generations and the burden that nuclear waste and pollution imposes on them.  Some scholars have concluded that it is therefore morally wrong to act in ways that produce these outcomes, which means it is morally wrong to engage in nuclear warfare. Robert Frank "Bob" List (born September 1, 1936) is an American attorney and politician.  He served as the 24th Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983.  He was raised in Exeter, California.  He served as the Carson City District Attorney and the Nevada Attorney General before becoming governor.  Currently List practices law in Las Vegas with the law firm Kolesar & Leatham, Chtd.  He was the last Governor to serve from outside Clark County until Jim Gibbons' election.  After his term ended, he became a supporter of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.  List was defeated for re-election in 1982 by Nevada Attorney General Richard Bryan.  He is a member of the Republican Party. Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 mi northwest of Las Vegas.  Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site.  It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility.  However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.
Answer: Robert Frank "Bob" List