[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Tri-City leaders want say in Hanford [WA] land use"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tri-City leaders want say in Hanford land use

by Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
June 3, 2014

Tri-City residents and elected officials should be given a say on the  
future use of Hanford land as environmental cleanup is completed,  
elected officials near the nuclear reservation told federal leaders  
in a letter Tuesday.

More Hanford land along the Columbia River should not be added to the  
Hanford Reach National Monument managed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife  
Service unless the agency has a "strong willingness" to support  
future public access as proposed by the local community, they said in  
the letter.

It was sent to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Interior Secretary  
Sally Jewell by the mayors of Richland, Kennewick, Pasco and West  
Richland; the chairmen of the Benton and Franklin county commissions;  
the executive directors of the ports of Benton and Pasco; the Tri- 
City Development Council and the Tri-Cities Visitor and Convention  
Bureau.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/06/03/3002308/tri-city-leaders- 
want-say-in-hanford.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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