Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | 8:42 a.m.
The Associated Press reports that a Senate spending panel has cut President Bush's 2009 budget request for Yucca Mountain by more than $100 million.
Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota says that instead of the $494.7 million Bush proposed, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water agreed Tuesday to $386.5 million, the AP writes.
-- More information: Read a letter from the Nevada congressional delegation
(See past Sun stories on Yucca Mountain).
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