[CPEO-MEF] Nevada "Bomb test will 'meet air quality regulations'"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bomb test will 'meet air quality regulations'

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pahrump Valley Times (NV)
April 14, 2006

LAS VEGAS - A huge non-nuclear explosion expected to generate a mushroom 
cloud in the Nevada desert will meet state air quality regulations, 
officials said Wednesday.

State regulators have raised questions about pollution and hazardous 
materials from the planned June 2 detonation of 700 tons of an ammonium 
nitrate and fuel oil, an official with the Nevada Division of 
Environmental Protection said.

But the Nevada Test Site has a blasting permit, and state officials said 
they had no plan to try to block the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's 
experiment, dubbed "Divine Strake."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2006/04/14/news/testsite.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>
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