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SJM114.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY - Stating findings of the Legislature and
encouraging the President of the United States, the United States Secretary
of Energy and the Congress to commit and sustain funding for demonstration
at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) of safe, state of the art, advanced
nuclear energy systems for commercial replication, and to express Idaho's
support of an enhanced portfolio of bioenergy, hydropower and related
alternative and renewable energy research at INL.
01/17 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/18 Rpt prt - to St Aff
01/23 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
01/25 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Bunderson
Title apvd - to House
01/26 House intro - 1st rdg - to Env
01/31 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/01 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/02 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Rydalch
Title apvd - to Senate
02/03 To enrol
02/06 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
02/07 Sp signed
02/08 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2006
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 114
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF
3 ENERGY, TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF
4 THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-
5 SENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRES-
6 SIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE
7 UNITED STATES.
8 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
9 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth
10 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
11 WHEREAS, the United States of America has become excessively dependent
12 upon foreign sources of oil, and that dependence threatens the security of the
13 American people and economy; and
14 WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the United States and Idaho to
15 become as energy independent and diversified as possible to avoid economic
16 dislocations instigated by foreign oil interests, markets and the effects of
17 natural disasters; and
18 WHEREAS, comprehensive energy legislation signed into law in 2005 advo-
19 cates the expansion of nuclear energy for the production of electrical power
20 and hydrogen, as well as the development of bioenergy and other alternative
21 fuels to reduce dependence on foreign sources of oil; and
22 WHEREAS, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) is the federal
23 agency that has primary responsibility for carrying out the directives of the
24 President and the Congress relative to enabling and enhancing the energy secu-
25 rity of the nation; and
26 WHEREAS, the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a key national
27 research, development and demonstration resource wherein the federal govern-
28 ment has invested significant tax dollars to establish such unique and glo-
29 bally important assets as the Advanced Test Reactor, the Safety and Tritium
30 Applied Research Fusion Facility, the Control Systems Security and Test Cen-
31 ter, and others, all of which demand continued, or even expanded, use to
32 assure maximum return on tax dollar investment; and
33 WHEREAS, the state of Idaho appreciates the effective, expedited cleanup
34 that has occurred in accordance with the 1995 Settlement Agreement, and is
35 committed to hosting continued broad-spectrum, national priority nuclear
36 research in Idaho as fully allowed by that agreement; and
37 WHEREAS, such nuclear research promises to advance our national interests
38 and critical need for safe, greenhouse gas free generation of abundant energy
39 with dramatically reduced waste concerns.
40 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
41 sion of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Repre-
42 sentatives concurring therein, that we support and encourage the DOE, the
43 Administration and the Congress to identify, commit and sustain the funding
44 necessary to allow design, development, testing and demonstration in Idaho at
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1 INL of safe, state of the art, advanced nuclear energy systems that can, ulti-
2 mately, be commercially replicated in other locations throughout the United
3 States and throughout the world.
4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature supports execution of an
5 enhanced portfolio of bioenergy, hydropower, fuel reforming and related alter-
6 native and renewable energy research in Idaho at INL, and hereby requests that
7 the DOE, the Administration and the Congress identify, commit and sustain the
8 funding necessary to allow continued performance of this and other
9 multiprogram energy and national security enhancing work so critical to the
10 long-term well-being of these United States.
11 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
12 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
13 ident of the United States, the Secretary of Energy of the United States,
14 President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of
15 Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in
16 the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 15469
This memorial makes clear that the Idaho Legislature supports the
United States becoming as energy independent and diversified as
possible.
Nuclear energy can have a major effect in reducing the nation's
dependence of foreign oil for heating, cut greenhouse gases and
produce hydrogen fuel for the next generation of motor vehicles.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is
a premier world class nuclear research facility and needs to be
funded adequately and charged with performing the research, design
and development of the next generation of safe, clean, state of the
art, advanced modular nuclear energy systems that can ultimately be
replicated in other locations throughout the United States and the
world.
Further, the Idaho Legislature supports the execution of an
enhanced portfolio of bioenergy, hydropower, fuel reforming and
related alternative and renewable energy research in Idaho at INL.
This memorial requests that DOE, the Administration and Congress
provide adequate and sustained funding to allow continuation of
these valuable programs that are so critical to our national
security.
FISCAL NOTE
No negative fiscal impact. However, implementation of the requests
made in this Memorial will have a significant positive fiscal
effect on the nation and Idaho.
Contacts:
Senator Hal Bunderson
208-332-1320
Senator Robert Geddes, Pro-Tem
208-332-1300
Representatives:
Speaker Bruce Newcomb
Dell Raybould
Ann Rydalch
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE SJM 114