SJM 8018

This Senate Joint Memorial is a formal request from the Washington State Legislature to the federal government urging action on establishing a permanent nuclear waste repository. The memorial recounts the decades-long history of failed attempts to create a federal repository for high-level radioactive waste, including the halted Yucca Mountain project, and highlights the ongoing accumulation of nuclear waste at temporary storage sites across the nation. While the full resolution text is cut off, the memorial appears to petition federal officials—including the President, Congress, the Department of Energy, and the EPA—to take definitive action on developing a permanent solution for nuclear waste disposal, addressing a problem that has persisted since the federal government first assumed responsibility for nuclear waste management in 1954.