my district in central washington is home to the hanford nuclear site.part of the top-secret manhattan project have constructed the atomic bomb it later provided to nuclear terrorists and end the cold war. today, hanford is the world's largest environmental cleanup project in the high-level defense nuclear waste. right now the department is building a critical $12 billion plant that will treat 53 million gallons of high-level defense waste currently stored in hands and turning into stable class blogs that are scheduled to be stored at yucca mountain. the waste treatment plant which is the $12 billion plant is over halfway done is being built to meet specifications designed to match the geological structure and makeup both yucca mountain. the department of energy is requesting increased funds and complete the waste treatment plant sooner than the expected 2016 timeframe. changing the goalposts at halftime will unnecessarily address to the project and has potential to waste limited cleanup dollars that are already difficult to secure. the waste treatment p

today, hanford is the world's largest environmental cleanup project. the department of energy is building, right now, a $12 billion plant that will treat 53 million gallons of high-level defense waste currently stored at underground -- stored in nderground tank atha hanford that are scheduled to be stored at yucca mountain. it is designed to match the geological structure and make up of yucca mountain. increase funds are requested to complete the plant sooner than the 2016 timeframe. taking the goal post at halftime will add risk to the project and has the potential to waste limited cleanup dollars that are difficult to secure. the waste treatment plant must move forward. that requires more than proper funding. it requires yucca mountain. i have an article on this issue that i would like to submit. >> is there an objection? hearing done -- >> the federal government also legal commitment will not be kept. cleanup progress will be jeopardized. with more defense waste scheduled to go to yucca mountain than any other state in the union, the risks could not