Title: Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2019
Policy area: Energy

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.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 721 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 721

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, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2019

 Ms. Rosen (for herself and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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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, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 of 2019''.

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

    (a) Definition of Yucca Mountain Site.--In this Act, the term 
``Yucca Mountain site'' has the meaning given the term in section 2 of 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101).
    (b) Study; Hearings.--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 described in the 
        report of the Government Accountability Office numbered GAO-11-
        847 and dated September 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) each of the appropriate committees of Congress holds a 
        hearing on the alternative uses of the Yucca Mountain site 
        described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1).
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