6002-S.E AMH POLL JOND 022

ESSB 6002 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-4473.1/14) 846

By Representative Pollet

WITHDRAWN 03/04/2014

    On page 152, after line 35, insert the following:

    "(12) Within existing funds, the department shall report to the relevant environmental committees of the house of representatives and the senate by June 30, 2014 and by December 1, 2014 on the following:

(a) Whether the department has adopted enforceable schedules for the operators of the U.S. department of energy's hanford nuclear reservation to empty leaking high-level nuclear waste tanks and to use borehole or other increased environmental monitoring at tanks which are at high risk of leaking; and

(b) The status of U.S. department of energy budget requests to empty tanks, construct new storage capacity, or use existing commercial, permitted treatment capacity in the vicinity of the hanford nuclear reservation to treat waste from leaking single shell tanks."

EFFECT:  Requires the Department of Ecology (DOE) to report to the Legislature on (1) whether DOE has adopted enforceable schedules for the operators of the Hanford nuclear reservation to empty leaking nuclear waste tanks and to use borehole or other increased environmental monitoring at tanks which are at high risk of leaking and (2) the status of U.S. Department of Energy budget requests to empty tanks, construct new storage capacity, or use existing commercial, permitted treatment capacity in the vicinity of the Hanford nuclear reservation to treat waste from leaking single shell tanks. 

FISCAL IMPACT: No net change to appropriated levels.

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