Yucca Mountain Foes Scale Back Opposition

Members of two legislative committees have agreed to cut in half funding for the state’s fight against Yucca Mountain, saying the federal plan to bring a nuclear waste dump to Nevada appears on the verge of collapse.

Gov. Kenny Guinn recommended $2 million for the state’s Yucca effort in his 2005-2007 budget.

But the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee voted to reduce that amount to $1 million.

Republican state Sen. Bob Beers said the recent allegations that workers might have falsified data regarding Yucca Mountain seem to have sent the project into a tailspin.