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Yucca budget facing big cuts over 2009-10, Reid says

Jan. 06, 2009Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journa
Yucca budget facing big cuts over 2009-10,
Reid saysBy STEVE TETREAULTSTEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU A few weeks after Sen. Harry Reid declared that the Yucca Mountain project was going to “bleed real hard” in the coming year, he said Monday that the already reduced budget for the controversial nuclear waste plan will be cut “significantly” for the remainder of 2009, and that a 2010 White House spending request will contain “little if anything at all.”

The Nevada Democrat made the declaration after he brought up Yucca Mountain in a meeting with President-elect Barack Obama earlier in the day.

The two have spoken about the project on several occasions since the election. After Monday’s meeting, Reid said Obama reiterated his opposition to the project, which he campaigned against during the presidential race.

Afterward, the Senate majority leader disclosed plans for what he characterized as a crippling attack on the proposal to store nuclear waste at the site, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas

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