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postponement,” he added.
In other comments, Sen. Warner said that the Monitored Retrievable Storage facility remains a key element in an effective waste management program.
“Although the operation of the first repository is stretched out until the year 2003, the Monitored Retrievable Storage would fulfill DOE’s commitment to accept nuclear waste by 1998. To ensure that the MRS does not serve as a substitute for a permanent repository, there will be a 15,000 metric ton limit on the storage capacity of the MRS,” he said.
In a ruling last week, the Supreme Court ended a dispute that prevented DOE from transmitting its site recommendation for the MRS to Congress. The Department has now recommended that the MRS facility be constructed at the former Clinch River Breeder Reactor site near Oak Ridge, Tenn.
“As a result of this ruling, it is time that we move forward with this facility to meet the 1998 deadlines for the federal government to store waste. This Draft Amendment to the Mission Plan will enable DOE to move forward in a responsible manner with implementing the provisions for a repository and an MRS consistent with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act,” said Sen. Warner.
In a related matter, Sen. Warner announced that in response to his request for a hearing, the Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation will hold a hearing April 23 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 406, Dirksen Senate Office Building, on the nuclear waste repository program. Among those testifying will be Energy Secretary John S. Herrington.
Sen. Warner, a member of the lubcommittee, urged Chairman ohn Breaux to hold a hearing' because of the “tremendous confusion >ver the direction of the program.”
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