Letter to President Obama - Blue Ribbon Commission

Dear Mr. President:
At your direction, the Secretary of Energy established the Blue Ribbon Commission on
America’s Nuclear Future to review policies for managing the back end of the nuclear
fuel cycle and recommend a new strategy. We are pleased to be serving as Co‐
Chairmen of the Commission, and we are writing to you to highlight an important action
we strongly believe should be reflected in your Fiscal Year 2013 baseline budget
projections.
In our draft report to the Secretary, issued in July of this year, the Commission
recommends several actions that should be taken to get the nuclear waste management
program back on track. High on our list of recommendations are actions that can and
should be taken soon to provide assured access to utility waste disposal fees for their
intended purpose. Unless action is taken in the near‐term to fix the way these fees are
treated in the federal budget, the nuclear waste strategy we recommend cannot
succeed.
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