Approving the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 87.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.J. Res. 87, Approving the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982” on April 30, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on April 25, 2002</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 30, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13612

  CBO publication date

  April 30, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 87, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hjres/87

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3d97b1c6f859dce23fd4559c0999dc9afab4f8ac75102533dd2116954126c1f2

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.J. Res. 87, Approving the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982” on April 30, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on April 25, 2002”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 30, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13612

  CBO publication date

  April 30, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 87, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hjres/87

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3d97b1c6f859dce23fd4559c0999dc9afab4f8ac75102533dd2116954126c1f2

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 107-425 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on May 1, 2002.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 1, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/425

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 87, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hjres/87

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3d97b1c6f859dce23fd4559c0999dc9afab4f8ac75102533dd2116954126c1f2

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

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