SCR 6

This concurrent resolution urges the U.S. Congress to either use the $31 billion collected in the Nuclear Waste Fund to finally establish a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, or reimburse the electric utility customers who have paid into the fund since 1983. The resolution highlights that Michigan utility customers alone have contributed $812 million to the fund over the past thirty years, yet no permanent storage facility has been built, leaving over 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel in temporary storage sites across the nation. By memorializing Congress, the Michigan legislature is formally expressing its position that the federal government must fulfill its decades-old obligation to either construct the promised repository or return the money to those who paid for it.