[CPEO-MEF] Air Force opposes Skull Valley (UT) nuclear dump

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A.F. boss backs plan to block Utah N-dump

By Robert Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune
December 7, 2005

WASHINGTON - Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne backs a plan proposed by 
Utah's congressional delegation aimed at blocking a nuclear waste dump 
near the Utah Test and Training Range by restricting access to the 
Indian reservation where the storage site would be built.

Wynne signed a letter Tuesday expressing support for Utah's push to 
create a wilderness area in the Cedar Mountains and other land-use 
restrictions near the Skull Valley Goshutes Indian reservation.

The secretary said the provision would address encroachment concerns 
raised by the proposal from Private Fuel Storage, a group of electric 
utilities that has received approval by the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission for a license to store 44,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel from 
commercial reactors on Goshute land.

In the one-page letter, Wynne also said that the Air Force was 
comfortable that the creation of the wilderness area would not impair 
the Air Force's ability to use the range.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3285722

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Lenny Siegel
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