Republicans Push Macfarlane to Wrap Up Licensing Process for Yucca Mountain Site

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House Republicans pressed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at a hearing to complete the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage project and to seek additional funding to comply with a federal court mandate. During an oversight hearing on NRC policies conducted by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) criticized the decision by NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane not to seek additional funding for the licensing process in the agency's fiscal year 2015 budget request. Shimkus, an outspoken advocate for completing the nuclear waste storage site, sparred with Macfarlane over the pace of the administration's restart of the Yucca Mountain licensing process.