Congressional Resource Guide

Welcome to NEI's Resource Guide for the 113th Congress. This site is designed to provide congressional leadership and staff with the most current information on nuclear energy.

This regularly updated information—including testimony, letters, speeches, policy briefs and fact sheets—is organized into these key issues:

• Congressional Testimony, Speeches, Letters
• Growing America’s Economy and Creating Jobs, State Fact Sheets
• Safety and Security at Nuclear Energy Facilities
• Reliable and Affordable Electricity
• New Reactor Construction, Small Modular Reactors and New Reactors
• International Trade and Export Policy
• Protecting the Environment
• Safely Managing Used Nuclear Fuel, Nonproliferation

 

During the 113th Congress, NEI is focusing on these priorities:

• Working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure the agency develops processes and procedures in a timely and systematic way that are focused on safety.
   
• Monitoring tax and spending issues to:
  • ensure there is no change in tax rate on earnings for nuclear energy facility decommissioning trust funds.
  • prevent further taxation of electric companies for decommissioning of federal government uranium enrichment plants.
  • protect funding allocated for production tax credits for construction of new nuclear energy facilities.
     
• Restructuring the Department of Energy’s used nuclear fuel and high-level waste management program. This should include:
  • completion of the Yucca Mountain licensing review
  • a new management and disposal organization dedicated solely to executing a high-level waste program
  • access to the annual collections and corpus of the Nuclear Waste Fund for their intended purpose
  • developing a pilot consolidated storage facility for used fuel (and possibly defense related high-level waste) in a willing host community and state while making substantial progress toward developing Yucca Mountain and/or a second geologic repository.
     
• Achieving greater alignment, coordination and support among executive branch agencies to support U.S. participation in the global nuclear energy market, including all 123 agreements and revisions of the DOE’s 810 export control regulations.
   
• Enabling the development and building of new nuclear plants by:
  • continuing to work with the NRC to develop a stable, predictable licensing platform
  • preserving the loan guarantee program authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and maintaining efforts to make the DOE program a workable financing platform
  • ensuring constructive congressional oversight focused on industry concerns
  • encouraging the development of innovative small modular reactors.

News

• NEI Comments on Federal Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2014

If you need more information, we encourage you to contact NEI’s governmental affairs staff at the e-mail addresses below or at 202.739.8000.

Federal Affairs

• Alex Flint, Senior Vice President – af@nei.org
• Hannah Simone, Senior Director, Political Affairs – hss@nei.org
• Bob Powers, Senior Director – rjp@nei.org
• Derrick Freeman, Senior Director – dwf@nei.org
• Leslie Barbour, Director – lpb@nei.org
• Jim Colgary, Director – jjc@nei.org
• Staci Wheeler, Director – saw@nei.org
• Michael O’Connell, Director, Congressional Information Program – jmo@nei.org

State Affairs

• Mike McGarey, Director – mfm@nei.org
• Christine Csizmadia, Manager – cmc@nei.org

Political Action Committee

• Lisa Van Varick, Manager – lvv@nei.org

Governmental Affairs Administration

• Merle Litvack, Senior Administrative Assistant – mxl@nei.org
• Nikolaus Schoenherr, Leg. Program Coordinator – nws@nei.org