The nation's utility commissioners have sued the federal government for failing to suspend fees designed to build a long-term radioactive waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, or NARUC, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It names the U.S. Department of Energy as a defendant and claims that the agency has failed to comply with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act that Congress passed in 1982. That act gave DoE power to charge nuclear power companies fees for developing a spent-fuel storage facility to store the nation's commercial high-level waste.
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