Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2026

This bill would end the federal licensing process for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. On the day it becomes law, the Energy Department's application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build the repository would be withdrawn, and the Commission's licensing proceeding would be terminated. The Secretary of Energy could not consider the site for a repository again and would have to reclaim the site and address environmental impacts from past work there. Within 180 days, the Office of Management and Budget would have to give Congress and the public a study on the economic and job benefits of other uses of the site, such as defense activities, renewable energy, and scientific research.

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Sponsors

• Susie Lee Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors