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During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to abandon the Yucca Mountain project.

After his election, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Obama he did not have the ability to do so.

On April 23, 2009, Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) and eight other senators introduced legislation to provide " rebates " from a $ 30 billion federally managed fund into which nuclear power plants had been paying, so as to refund all collected funds if the project was in fact cancelled by Congress.