SENATOR XXXXXX. Thank you, Mr. Xxxxxxxx. I appreciate your testimony and the work that you all have done on this. I do continue along the same lines to be a little bit con- fused about some of the structures that are set up to ensure that safeguards are properly in place and there is no intermixing. Let me ask, what is the advantage, again, and why would we go about a phased safeguard approach? I mean, I realize at the end of the day, that there’s a lot of things that are driving this besides non-nuclear proliferation, and sort of, the tail is wagging the dog, and we’ve sort of gotten what we could get, here, I understand that. But, what is it—why is it to their benefit to do it over a phased amount of time? Xx. XXXX. Senator, the—during the negotiations on the separa- tion plan, the Indian Government wanted time to phase out the im- plementation of IAEA safeguards at additional facilities in our schedule, to allow them time to prepare, to spread out the expense of bringing those additional facilities under safeguards over a longer period of time. And it was just a means by which they ar- gued to us that they should be permitted to implement this in a gradual manner, as opposed to a date certain for all facilities, when those would be put. Senator XXXXXX. But, big expense in that? I mean, the benefits of having these materials seems pretty large. There is a large ex- pense in bringing these under proper safeguards? Xx. XXXX. There’s some expense required, only in that you need to provide declarations, you need to have people trained and have a system in place by which material is accounted for in very small quantities and other matters are done. We obviously favor this. I don’t mean to come across as saying this isn’t a reasonable thing to ask countries to do, we encourage them to do it, and the Indians have safeguards on some facilities today, but this was substantially, as I mentioned, increase the fa- cilities placed under safeguard. So, it’s just a phased implementa- tion toward that. But there is an incentive, which is, until facilities are under safe- guards, international cooperation, such as the sale of fuel to be used in a reactor, would not be possible. So, there is a—the system encourages India to place facilities under safeguards, earlier rather than later. Senator XXXXXX. Let me read a question, in 2007, the Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission answered the question— how will the separation of civilian and nuclear facilities from their military cou...
SENATOR XXXXXX advance i t o ver the E & R Initial, and I t hi n k t h at i n so do i ng y ou wi l l hav e p r ov i d ed a v e r y v a l u ab l e economic d e v e lopment tool for the State of Nebraska, but by the s ame token is not in any way detrimental to the c o n s umers t h a t would be utilizing this particular legislation. SPEAKER B A RRETT : Th ank yo u . You h av e he a r d t h e c l o s i ng . And the question is the advancement o f L B 9 1 3 t o E & R In i t i a l. Those i n f av o r vo t e a y e , th o s e o p p o sed no . V oti n g on the advancement of the bill. H a v e you all voted? P l e ase record.
SENATOR XXXXXX. SPEAKER XXXXXXX: Sen at o r Lab xx x . CLERK: You h ad a m ot i o n to return, Senator. D o you want to offer that? SENATOR LABED2 : Y es , I w ou x x re s p e c t fully a s k th a t to be w it h d r a w n . S XXXXXX XXXXXXX : I t i s w i t h d rawn . CLERK: Sen at o r N cF a r l and a n d S e n ator Xxxxxxx had amendments printed, Nr. President. I u nd e rs t a nd yo u w an t to w ith d r a w t hose , Xxx a t o r . S ENATOR Nc XXXXXXX : W i t h d raw th e m . S XXXXXX XXXXXXX: Wi t h d r xx x. ASSISTANT CLERK: ( Read LB 8 8 o n Fi n a l Re x x x x x. ) SPEAKER B A RRETT : A ll pro v isions of law relative to procedure h aving been complied with, the question is, s h al l L B 8 8 p as s ? Those in favor vote aye, opposed nay. V o ting on the passage of LB 88. H ave you all v<'xxx? S e n ator Xxxxx, did I h e a r y o u to Apri l 8 , 198 8 L B 90 , 29 5 A , 30 1 , 30 1 A , 35 2 , 3 6 9, 419 , 4 19 A , 44 5 , 4 63 6 32, 6 64 , 6 6 4 A , 6 7 2 , 6 8 4 , 7 0 0 , 70 3 , 71 6 , 7 1 6 A , 7 6 6 , 7 6 6 A , 82 3 833 , 8 3 5 , 85 5 , 8 58 , 86 6 , 88 4 , 89 0 , 899 , 9 00 , 00 0 , 0 00 , 000X 9 42, 9 53 , 9 7 8 , 9 8 7 , 9 8 7 A , 9 9 8 , 1 0 0 4 , 1 0 0 8 , 1 0 0 8 A , 1 0 1 3 , 1 0 1 3 A 1 039, 1 0 3 9 A , 1 0 4 2 , 1 0 7 9 A , 1 0 7 9 , 10 8 9 , 109 2 , 110 0 , 110 0 A , 11 1 0 1 126, 1 1 43 , 1 1 4 3 A, 1 1 57 , 1 2 0 7 , 1 2 0 7 A , 1 2 1 7 , 1 2 2 1 , 1 2 2 1 A , 1 2 3 3 balcony. We have 18 third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders from District 53 i n A yr, Nebraska. W ould you folks please stand and be recognized. Th ank you. We ' re glad to h av e y o u w i t h u s . Another gue s t o f Sen a to r P e t erso., Xxxx No l an , t h e Ci t y Administrator at Norfolk is under the north balcony. M x . Xxxxx, would you please stand and be recognized. T h ank you . G lad to have you with us too. A n y thing for the record, Mr. Xxxxx? CLERK: X x . P r esident, I do. I h ave a series of veto messages. (Read veto messages received from the Governor. Re : XX 00 0 , XX 00 00 , XX 122 1 A, LB 672 , LB 10 79 A , LB 823 , LB 114 3 , LB 1143 A . See pages 2339-42 of the Legislative Journal.) M r. President, I also have a series of letters addressed to t h e C ler k . ( Read letters regarding signing of the following bills, LB 940 , L B 94 0 A , LB 1100 , LB 110 0 A, LB 85 5 , LB 8 58 , LB 89 9 , LB 1089 , LB 11 10 , LB 120 7 , LB 120 7 A, LB 12 17 and LB 123 3 , LB 419 , LB 4 19A , LB 664 , LB 6 64 A , LB 352 , L X 00 0 , XX 000 0 , XX 463 , LB 9 13 , L B 10 79 , LB 1157 , LB ...
SENATOR XXXXXX. Thank you, Mr. Xxxxxxx and members of the Legislature. I have a question for Senator Xxxxxxx if he would yield, please. SPEAKER XXXXX: Senator Xxxxxxx, would you respond, please. SENATOR XXXXXX: Senator Xxxxxxx, as chairman of the committee. Natural Resources Committee, that this was heard in front of, I noted that the state auditor was not there to oppose this proposal. Is that correct? SENATOR XXXXXXX: As I recall they were not at the public hearing although subsequent to the public hearing we called the State Auditor' s Office in and grilled them on several subjects including the standards that they apply and their attitude towards things. SENATOR PIRSCH: Ummm, hummm. But this bill, the state auditor audits now public -power records. Is that correct? SENATOR XXXXXXX: Well there is some question as to whether they had the power to audit them, but, yes. SENATOR XXXXXX: Although it says in statute... SENATOR XXXXXXX: Yes, yes. SENATOR PIRSCH: ...that the state auditor shall...
SENATOR XXXXXX. Mr. President, I Just have a question of S enator Xxxxxxx . PRESIDENT: Ee was closing but there was some confusion. SENATOR XXXXXX: All right.
SENATOR XXXXXX. Mr . President, members of the Legislature. Senator Xxxxxxx is exactly right. If Senator Xxxxxx will read the first part of subsection 4 he will see that he is already requ1red, under that provision, to sell or market all or a specified part of the livestock or other products to or through the association. This language refers to the purchase of those products. This is a willing contract signed into an agreement by the co-op member. I t ' s a n a g r e e - ment between the member and the association. It 1s the only way the co-op can function. It has to have the ability to function 1n this manner. It is one tool which the farmer can use in his ability to deal with larger businesses. I t ' s a tool he can use or choose not to use. He does no t n e e d t o use it. He can sell or agree to sell any part or all of his products . He doe s n ' t ha v e t o do so . It's the same language that has been in the bill in reference to the selling of live- stock and other products for many years. There i s no t hi ng strange about it. There is nothing sinister about it. I ' m not sure what Senator Xxxxx obgection is. I know that if you will recall, last year we had a bill on this floor that had to do with taxing a co-op, I believe it was 382. The bill was opposed by some private elevator interests, but the bill was strictly a co-op bill. T his l a n g uage shoul d h a v e been included ir. the bill at that time, it was n ot, t h at i s why the bill was introduced. Again there was no opposition to the bill. I would hope that we would not return the bill for any kind of an amendment which has been s uggested b y Senator Xxxxx.
SENATOR XXXXXX. Thank you Mr.President and members. I am reminded again by the exchange there with Senator Xxxxxx that you are asking, you are asking us to take a giant leap in faith when we don't know what this...the bottom line is on this amendment. When we get this amendment ready to advance, when 806 is ready to advance, we don't know what these figures are and I think we deserve to have that opportunity. I object to us doing something in the blind, and that is what we are doing with this bill. If we advance it today we need...we are saying, we are taking everything for granted. We don't know what it is doing, but we are going to trust you. Idon't think r.hat we can do that. I don't think we should do it to our constituents and I don't think that we should do it to ourselves. I have got a bracket motion up there that will bracket the bill until Tuesday. By that time we will have the results from the amendments that have been put up, and as soon as we vote on this amendment, that bracket motion will come up and I would urge your support of that bracket motion. I think it makes ^ood sense, I think it tells the people involved here that we ne"d to know exactly what we are doing. We can't be doing these things blindly, and I would hope that that message should come across
SENATOR XXXXXX. It has been discussed in the court a little bit. The First National Bank of Omaha, o f cou r se , I am s u r e would like to retain the situation as it stands.
SENATOR XXXXXX. I support Senator Xxxxxxxx 1s amendment and I feel that it might be redundant also but I have no objec tion to it and if Senator Xxxxxxxx is more comfortable and he is * ' ery prudent in scrutinizing, I compliment him for it and support the amendment.
SENATOR XXXXXX. Senator Xxxxx, what are the actuarial assumptions for the disability income portion for 1980 or . . . down the road five years or ten years? You' ve certainly looked at assumptions other than just the first fund. SENATOR X. XXXXX: That's . . . that's amortized figure over that 20 year period. SENATOR XXXXXX: That will totally fund the liability? SENATOR X. XXXXX: That's an annual appropriation.
