Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2026

This bill would end the federal licensing process for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. It would withdraw the Department of Energy's application to build the repository and repeal the laws that designated the site. The Secretary of Energy could no longer consider the site for a repository and would have to reclaim the site and address environmental harm from past site work. Within 180 days, the Office of Management and Budget would have to give Congress and the public a study of 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

• Jacky Rosen Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors