LAS VEGAS (AP) - The federal government says it will close a multi-million dollar Las Vegas facility used for Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings on the proposed Yucca Mountain repository at the end of August.
The Las Vegas Review Journal on Sunday reported (http://bit.ly/n8wlxi) the Pepper Lane building was rarely used by the commission's Atomic Safety and License Board.
Government records show just 22 hearings or meetings were held between June 2005 and a final hearing in June 2010.
In that time, the government paid more than $3 million in rent and about $2 million for equipment, including metal detectors, airport-quality scanners and closed-circuit televisions.
No hearings have been held this year because the Obama administration abandoned the Yucca Mountain project.
The agency gave notice that it would vacate the building in June.
