ACR 85

This resolution urges the President and Congress to enact legislation that would provide annual financial compensation to local governments hosting decommissioned nuclear power plants where spent nuclear fuel remains stored on-site. The resolution calls for payments of $15 per kilogram of spent nuclear fuel, mirroring compensation rates originally authorized in the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act for interim storage sites that were never built. This measure aims to address the financial burden on municipalities like Lacey Township, New Jersey (home to the shuttered Oyster Creek plant), which have lost significant property tax revenue from these facilities that cannot be redeveloped while nuclear waste remains stored there, effectively making these communities involuntary permanent repositories for spent fuel.