This issue brief explores options for providing states and federal agencies with new regulatory
authorities as one potentially critical element in making a consent-based siting regime for
nuclear waste facilities work. It summarizes key points from a longer analysis prepared by Van
Ness Feldman LLC (VNF) for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Nuclear Waste Initiative, which is
exploring ways to advance the BRC recommendations. Specifically, VNF looked at whether an
arrangement, in which federal agencies give a state some form of regulatory authority over