Committee on Environment and Public Works
Oversight Hearing on the Status of the Yucca Mountain Project
March 1, 2006
628 Dirksen, 2:30 P.M.
Opening Statements:
Sen. James M. Inhofe, of Oklahoma.
Sen. John W. Warner, of Virginia.
Sen. George V. Voinovich , of Ohio.
Sen. Jim DeMint, of South Carolina.
Sen. James M. Jeffords, of Vermont.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, California.
Sen. Thomas R. Carper, of Delaware.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey.
Witnesses:
Sen. Harry Reid
State of Nevada
Sen. John Ensign
State of Nevada
William Wehrum
Acting Assistant Administrator
Office of Air and Radiation
Environmental Protection Agency
Paul Golan
Acting Director
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
Department of Energy
Robert Fri
Chairman
National Research Council
Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
Allison MacFarlane
Research Associate
Program in Science, Technology and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Loux
Executive Director
Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects
Office of the Governor
Dr. Dade W. Moeller
Former President
Health Physics Society
