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The Honorable Mike Simpson The Honorable Chellie Pingree

20 Jun 2024

Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Interior, Environment Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies and Related Agencies Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Simpson, Ranking Member Pingree, Chairman Merkley, and Ranking Member Murkowski: The undersigned organizations request that the Committees provide an additional $3 million in FY 2025 for the Env. [...] Experts from multiple organizations have recommended this action in reports such as the 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission’s “America’s Nuclear Future” and the 2023 National Academies’ “Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors.” The American Nuclear Society recently issued peer- reviewed recommendations to guide the de. [...] Department of Energy] to site a… repository until health and safety regulations are revised.” Recognizing that the EPA has responsibility for its regulations, EPA officials specified in the same report that “they do not plan to invest resources in revising health and safety regulations without specific direction from Congress.” Therefore, congressional direction to the EPA to revise the standard i. [...] Our organizations are grateful for the Committees’ continued commitment to the health and safety of people and the environment, and we write to seek your leadership on the shared priority of funding the EPA to update its generic geological repository standard in FY 2025. [...] Requested Report Language: Within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, the Committee provides $3,000,000 to develop a new generic, technology-neutral protection standard that reflects modern, international practices and that would apply to future high-level nuclear waste disposal facilities as authorized by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (P.

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