Though probably not what the article was referring to, Nevada is a bit of a special case here because in the past they created a county (Bullfrog County) for th

Though probably not what the article was referring to, Nevada is a bit of a special case here because in the past they created a county (Bullfrog County) for the express purpose of preventing the federal government from storing nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain site. Ironically, what Nevada is proposing to do might actually make it easier for the federal government to store nuclear waste in Nevada as long as it was contracted to one of these new company counties, though the specific details of the legislation would need to be reviewed to know for sure.