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Resolution in Support of GNEP
McCRACKEN COUNTY FISCAL COURT
PADUCAH CITY COMMISSION
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF GNEP
This resolution is brought before the governing bodies of McCracken County,
Kentucky, and the City of Paducah, Kentucky, on the matter of supporting the
f efforts of the Paducah Uranium Plant Asset Utilization Task Force to secure one
~~ or more projects associated with the Nation's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.
WHEREAS, the Paducah Uranium Plant Asset Utilization (PUPAU) Task Force
was chartered to show the region's state and federal elected officials that the
community supports the use of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP)
site for the location of facilities that are complementary to the site; and
WHEREAS, PUPAU, as part of its charter, is focusing on ways to determine the
potential of Paducah, McCracken County, and the western Kentucky region to be
a site for the location of a project or projects associated with the Nation's Global
Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), an initiative that seeks to develop
worldwide consensus on enabling expanded use of economical, carbon-free
nuclear energy to meet growing electricity demand and that will use a nuclear
fuel cycle that enhances energy security, while promoting non-proliferation; and
WHEREAS, Paducah and McCracken County, Kentucky, are in a centralized
location and are within 600 miles of 50 of the Nation's operating reactors, and the
region has land, water and air transportation modalities, which significantly
reduces the Department of Energy's spent fuel and product transportation; and
WHEREAS, Paducah, Kentucky, McCracken County, western Kentucky, west
__~ Tennessee, southeast Missouri, and southern Illinois have a fully qualified and
Nuclear Regulatory Commission experienced workforce of 2000 people; and the
region has the only operational uranium conversion plant in the United States
located just two miles across the Ohio River in southern Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is the only operational
uranium enrichment plant to recycle recovered uranium from the Consolidated
Fuel Treatment Center; and
WHEREAS, PUPAU is conducting a fully transparent informational and
educational campaign to inform and educate the public during the siting study
period about its efforts and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership; and
WHEREAS, PUPAU has the unqualified support from the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Ernie Fletcher, and the GNEP initiative has
bipartisan U.S. Senate leadership support in Kentucky and Illinois through
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Senator Jim
Bunning (R-KY) and has multi-state Congressional support in Kentucky, Illinois
and Missouri; and
WHEREAS, the PUPAU effort to secure GNEP projects has "world class"
corporate partners in CH2M Hill and Honeywell and outstanding community
~" leadership support through the PUPAU Task Force, which is co-chaired by
Paducah Mayor Bill Paxton and McCracken County Judge Executive Van
Newberry; and
WHEREAS the GNEP project or projects would bring 5000 construction jobs and
1000 permanent jobs to the region and enhance and improve the economies of
western Kentucky, west Tennessee, southern Illinois, and southeast Missouri.
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Resolution in Support of GNEP
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the McCracken County, Kentucky, Fiscal
Court and the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, concur
with the Paducah Uranium Plant Asset Utilization Task Force efforts and urge the
U. S. Department of Energy to anchor one or more of the Global Nuclear Energy
Partnership projects at the U.S. Department of Energy's federal reservation in
McCracken County, Kentucky. ~.
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Van E. Newberry, Judge/ e William F. Paxton, Ma r
McCracken County, u City of Paducah, Kentu ky
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