United States Senator: Bob Bennett - Utah
Contact: Emily Christensen, 202-224-5444, Washington, DC 20510
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     
September 07, 2006     

Bennett Hails News That PFS Loses Final Push to Bring Nuclear Waste to Utah

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Bob Bennett received the good news today that the Bureau of Land Management has denied Private Fuel Storage (PFS) – a consortium of eight electric power generating companies – the right of way to transport high-level nuclear waste to Skull Valley and the Bureau of Indian Affairs has denied the lease for a nuclear waste storage facility on Indian trust lands.

“This is tremendous news for the state,” said Bennett (R-Utah). “It reassures all Utahns today and those in generations to come that high-level nuclear waste will not be sent to Skull Valley.”

Bennett added, “For years the entire delegation has urged the Department of Interior to take this action. I raised this issue with Secretary Kempthorne prior to his confirmation last spring and stressed the importance of it to our state. I am delighted with his prompt response. This ends any possibility that the Goshute facility will ever be used for the storage of high-level nuclear waste.”

Below is a list of actions taken by Sen. Bennett to help eliminate the PFS proposal:

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