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From: "Jonathan Parfrey" <psrsm@igc.apc.org>

Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Alert

WARD VALLEY ACTION ALERT
Land Transfer Legislation Before Congress
	     
 With the support of California Governor Pete Wilson and the nuclear
industry, Congress is quickly moving to enact legislation that would 
exempt the Ward Valley project from federal environmental laws and transfer 
land at Ward Valley to the State of California for use as a radioactive waste 
dump. Dump proponents have attached the Ward Valley land transfer language 
to a special bill that prohibits opponents, such as California Senator 
Barbara Boxer, from using a filibuster to stop the legislation.

 The land transfer language, which has been attached to the Budget
Reconciliation Bill, will soon move to the floor of the House and 
Senate for a vote.  If it passes, President Clinton will have the option to veto 
the bill.

 We must act now to stop Governor Wilson and the nuclear industry 
from bypassing environmental laws and going forward with this dangerous 
project. Write, call, or e-mail your Congressional Representative and Senators 
today. Ask them to do everything they can to prevent Congress from passing 
Ward Valley land transfer legislation.  Also write, call, or e-mail 
President Clinton and ask him to fight the bill while it's in Congress and veto 
it if it gets to his desk.

 Dump supporters turned to Congress when Interior Secretary Bruce 
Babbitt refused to transfer the land without enforceable conditions that 
would implement some of the recommendations made by a National Academy of 
Sciences (NAS) panel and limit the amount of plutonium-239 that could be 
dumped at the site.  Although he had promised that only a very small amount of
plutonium-239 would be dumped at Ward Valley, Governor Wilson refused 
to make that commitment binding.  The Ward Valley land transfer legislation 
would hand the land over to the Wilson Administration without conditions, 
and Governor Wilson would then be free to ignore the NAS panel 
recommendations and allow for the disposal of hundreds of pounds of plutonium-239 at 
Ward Valley.

 The Ward Valley radioactive waste dump would accept large amounts of
long-lived and highly toxic wastes from nuclear power plants.  The 
proposed facility is located just 20 miles from the Colorado River, the 
primary drinking water supply for millions of people in the Southwestern 
United States and Northern Mexico.

 Act now!  The future of the Colorado River is in danger.


People to Contact About Ward Valley Land Transfer Legislation
(In Order of Importance)


[Your Congressional Representative]
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC  20515
Phone:  (202) 224-3121

[YOUR SENATORS] 
United States Senate
Washington, DC  20510
Phone:  (202) 224-3841          Fax:  (202) 228-3954
E-Mail: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) - senator@boxer.senate.gov
	Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) - senator@feinstein.senate.gov

President Bill Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC  20501
Phone:  (202) 456-1414 E-Mail:  president@whitehouse.gov
		     
Vice President Al Gore, Jr.
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, DC  20501
Phone:  (202) 456-2326 E-Mail:  vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Secretary Bruce Babbitt
United States Department of the Interior
Washington, DC  20240
Phone:  (202) 208-7351 Fax:  (202) 208-5133 E-Mail:  
batkinson@ios.doi.gov


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Physicians for Social Responsibility
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310 458-2694
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Jonathan Parfrey
Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles
1316 Thrid Street Promenade, Suite B1
Santa Monica, California 90401
310.458.2694 phone  *  310.458.7925 fax  *  psrsm@psr.org
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