Congress Poised to Skip Funding Yucca Nuke Dump Again This Year
- Trump had asked for $120 million to develop Nevada repository
- Appropriations committees seen extending separate loan program
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House and Senate appropriators have no plans to fund development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada this year, according to the chairman of the House subcommittee charged with writing the Energy Department’s spending plan.
Lawmakers have agreed, however, to continue a separate Obama-era loan program the Trump administration has sought to kill, the chairman, Representative Mike Simpson, said in an interview Tuesday after his appropriations subcommittee finished work on the bill.