DOE Nuke Waste to Eastern Washington?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Nuclear-waste talks being held in private 


By LISA STIFFLER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
May 20, 2004

The fate of thousands of truckloads of radioactive and hazardous waste
potentially destined for Eastern Washington is being hashed out between
state and federal regulators in closed-door discussions. 

The U.S. Department of Energy wants to haul radioactive debris from
nuclear-cleanup projects nationwide for permanent and temporary disposal
at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The action is needed, Energy
Department authorities say, to finish other cleanup projects around the
country. 

Officials with Gov. Gary Locke's office and the Ecology Department are
in discussions over the conditions of how existing and incoming waste
will be handled and stored. 

The talks have outraged a local watchdog group and prompted a letter
from Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., urging the state not to agree to take the waste.

"It would be a major mistake to allow the importation of nuclear waste
... in exchange for a simple affirmation that the (Energy Department)
will comply with its existing legal obligations," Inslee wrote in a
letter Tuesday addressed to Locke, his chief of staff, Tom Fitzsimmons,
and the head of Ecology.

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for the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/174138_hanford20.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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