Title: Jobs, Not Waste Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Jobs, Not Waste Act
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.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5643 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5643

To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from taking any action relating to 
  the licensing, planning, development, or construction of a nuclear 
  waste repository until the Director of the Office of Management and 
 Budget submits to Congress a study on the economic viability and job-
   creating benefits of alternative uses of the Yucca Mountain site.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2018

  Ms. Rosen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from taking any action relating to 
  the licensing, planning, development, or construction of a nuclear 
  waste repository until the Director of the Office of Management and 
 Budget submits to Congress a study on the economic viability and job-
   creating benefits of alternative uses of the Yucca Mountain site.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Jobs, Not Waste Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDYING THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF ALTERNATIVE USES OF YUCCA 
              MOUNTAIN SITE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy may not take any action 
relating to the licensing, planning, development, or construction of a 
nuclear waste repository at the Yucca Mountain site until--
            (1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
        submits to Congress, and makes available to the public, a study 
        on the economic viability and job-creating benefits of 
        alternative uses of the Yucca Mountain site as outlined in GAO 
        Report 11-847, published on September 16, 2011, including--
                    (A) defense activities, such as a command facility 
                for unmanned aircraft systems;
                    (B) a secure electronic data center;
                    (C) the development of renewable energy sources; 
                and
                    (D) scientific research; and
            (2) Congress holds a hearing on the alternative uses under 
        subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1).
    (b) Definition.--In this Act, the term ``Yucca Mountain site'' has 
the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy 
Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101).
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