I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2476 
To authorize the United States Department of Energy to remediate the 
Western New York Nuclear Service Center in the Town of Ashford, 
New York, and dispose of nuclear waste. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 24, 2007 
Mr. KUHL of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To authorize the United States Department of Energy to 
remediate the Western New York Nuclear Service Center 
in the Town of Ashford, New York, and dispose of nu-
clear waste. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘West Valley Remedi-
ation Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The Federal Government has had the pri-
mary and central role in initiating, establishing, and 
providing material for spent nuclear fuel reprocess-
ing and waste burial operations at the Center. 
(2) The Federal Government has availed itself 
of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing operations at the 
Center, and has benefited from such operations to 
process and store at the Center radioactively con-
taminated materials generated in, and by, various 
Federal civilian and military programs. 
(3) Under the West Valley Demonstration 
Project Act, New York State has contributed over 
$200,000,000 toward site remediation, making New 
York the only State that has contributed toward the 
cleanup of a high-level radioactive waste site. 
(4) Since passage of the West Valley Dem-
onstration Project Act, substantial progress has been 
made in the remediation of radioactive wastes at the 
Center, but the remediation of the Center has not 
been completed. 
(5) The Federal Government agreed in 1987 to 
prepare an environmental impact statement con-
cerning closure for the post-vitrification phase of the 
West Valley Demonstration Project, as will be need-
ed for remediation of the Center, and has made sub-
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stantial progress since then in preparing such an en-
vironmental impact statement for the Center, includ-
ing the issuance of a draft environmental impact 
statement in 1996, but the environmental impact 
statement has not been completed. 
(6) The lack of certainty about Federal respon-
sibility for the remaining remediation necessary at 
the Center may impede progress toward completion 
of the cleanup. 
(7) Completion of the remaining remediation at 
the Center in a prompt, thorough, and effective 
manner, in full compliance with all applicable State 
and Federal laws and regulations, is in the best in-
terest of the United States, the Great Lakes region 
as a whole, the State and its citizens, and the Sen-
eca Nation of Indians and its members, which Na-
tion occupies ancestral territory downstream of the 
Center. 
(8) The facilities and contamination at the Cen-
ter are located on or in Pleistocene glacial deposits 
that are being actively eroded by nearby creeks that 
drain into the Great Lakes basin. To maintain the 
long-term stability of any facilities that may remain 
at the Center, active monitoring and maintenance of 
erosion controls and other engineered features will 
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