The American Gaming Association unveiled Tuesday the casino industry's top lobbying priorities under President-elect Donald Trump, including its opposition to reviving plans for a nuclear waste repository outside of Las Vegas.

The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada was designed by the U.S. government to be a place where spent fuel from nuclear power plants could be safely stored for up to a million years. However, the Obama administration cut funding to the project in 2011 because of opposition from Nevada residents, who were both worried about site's environmental effects and still harbored resentment from the time when the government conducted open-air nuclear bomb tests in their state.

In a memo addressed to Trump, AGA expressed "serious concerns" about restarting the project, which the president-elect's advisers are reportedly considering.

"Yucca Mountain is located just 90 miles from Las Vegas, and any problems with the transport of nuclear waste to the site, or issues with its storage there, would bring potentially devastating consequences to the world's premier tourist destination and the industry, which all Nevadans rely on in one way or another," the group said.

AGA's stance on Yucca Mountain puts its at odds with business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nuclear Energy Institute, both which has pushed for the site to be utilized.

AGA also spelled out several other legislative priorities, pointing to Trump's former career as a casino owner as evidence the industry may soon have an sympathetic ear in the White House. The group called for a continued crackdown on illegal gambling, the legalization of sports betting, curtailing attempts to place tribal casinos outside Native American reservations, tax and immigration reform, and continued government support for travel and tourism. http://bit.ly/2h1PPr9

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