GAO Official Warns Hill Committee About DOE Plans for Interim Storage

摘要

An official with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that plans by the Department of Energy (DOE) to construct two new interim storage sites for and a new permanent storage facility location may exceed the department's authority. Frank Rusco, director of GAO's Natural Resources and Environment office, in prepared testimony, told the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, that "DOE's statutory authority to develop interim storage is uncertain."