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Monday, February 13, 2012

Nuclear Industry Opposes Latest DOE Bid to Re-Impose Cleanup Tax in FY 2013 Budget

Nuclear Industry Opposes Latest DOE Bid to Re-Impose Cleanup Tax in FY 2013 Budget

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Energy today released a fiscal 2013 budget request that seeks to re-impose on the nuclear energy industry a multi-billion-dollar tax for the cleanup of DOE uranium enrichment facilities. The administration is seeking this “special assessment” under a program in which the industry already met its financial obligations while the federal government failed to pay its required share of the cleanup funds.

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