Congressman Rob Bishop says that if a state, take Utah for instance, wants to store foreign nuclear waste, say from Italy, the federal government has no right to stop them. Bishop told the AP's Brock Vergakis:

I don't see it as a federal issue. If the state of Tennessee wants to take it, and if the state of Utah wants to take it, I'm going to punt it back to them. It is within their purview.

EnergySolutions, with whom Bishop has a history of playing footsie, wants to dump about 1,600 tons of Italian nuke waste in the congressman's district.

Congressman Jim Matheson is co-sponsoring a bill that would ban such nuclear-waste imports.