[CPEO-MEF] TRIBES, RADIATION: West Valley Demonstration Project (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Group say they want total cleanup at West Valley site; feds allocate $74 
million to project

By Rick Miller
Olean Times Herald (NY)
April 1, 2009

IRVING - The U.S. Department of Energy's plans for the long-term cleanup 
at the West Valley Demonstration Project got a cool reception Tuesday at 
its first hearing in Western New York on the Seneca Nation's Cattaraugus 
Territory, which is downstream from the cleanup site.

The Department of Energy's preferred alternative is a two-phased cleanup 
with much of the agreed-upon work being done in the first phase. The 
plan puts off for up to 30 years, however, any decisions on whether to 
remove underground tanks that once held highly radioactive liquids or to 
excavate state and federal burial grounds containing thousands of tons 
of low-level radioactive wastes.

There was emotional testimony from Seneca Councilor Todd Gates read from 
a resolution the Tribal Council passed at a meeting on the Allegany 
Territory earlier in March calling for a full cleanup of the West Valley 
site's "toxic and radioactive wastes," some of which remains radioactive 
for thousands of years.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.oleantimesherald.com/articles/2009/04/01/news/doc49d3cb4ade671981434396.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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