Senate Energy panel to examine DOE nuclear waste bill on August 3

Washington (Platts)--27Jul2006

A key US Senate committee is set to examine the Department of Energy's
proposed nuclear waste bill during a hearing August 3, setting in motion the
legislative process on a bill the department has said is central to its
ability to begin operating a repository in 2017, officials said Thursday.

The 10 am EDT hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee will
be in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

No information was available immediately on how far through the
legislative process committee Chairman Pete Domenici hopes to move the bill
before Congress adjourns in early October. Domenici, Republican-New Mexico,
co-sponsored the DOE-crafted bill in the Senate.

Domenici's counterpart in the House, Joe Barton, Republican-Texas, who
chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee and who introduced the bill in
the House, has not publicly committed to holding hearings on the bill in 2006,
but has indicated there might be time to consider it.

Meanwhile, there is growing speculation that Congress will return for a
lame duck session after the mid-term elections in November.

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