🚀 go-pugleaf

This is the progress made in Rep. Brian Bilbray's  (R-CA 49th) pet
project. Don't forget that Ward Valley in in the Southern California
desert.


Subj:  Newsletter 3/19/96 Pt II
Date:  Mar 19, 1996 6:44 PM PST
From:  CONNECT@ucsd.edu
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>CONNECT
>The Weekly Newsletter of UCSD CONNECT
>TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1996
>Issue 6-10, Part 2 of 2
>http://www.connect.org/connect
>CONNECT@UCSD.EDU

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>WARD VALLEY
>The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill to
>require the Interior Department to immediately transfer the federal land
>needed for the Ward Valley low-level radioactive waste disposal site to the
>state of California on a 12-6 vote. All Republicans and one Democrat on the
>committee voted for approval. The bill, sponsored by Senate Energy and
>Natural Resources Committee Chair Frank Murkowski, R-AL and ranking
>minority member Bennet Johnston, D-LA.,   will next go to the Senate floor.
>California Senator Barbara Boxer opposes the bill. Senator Dianne Feinstein
>has indicated in a recent letter that she wants further assurances that
>radioactive materials will not migrate to the Colorado River many miles
>away. The National Academy of Sciences, the nation's  most prestigious
>scientific society, considered by many to be "the court of last resort"
>thinks the location is about as safe as you can find.  Meanwhile the waste
>continues to pile up in urban centers throughout California.

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