> Impacts on tribal governments - S. 1271 contains one significant
> difference from H.R. 1020 that could be particularly harmful to tribal
> sovereignty. A provision is in the bill that would preempt the
> application of state or local laws to any action authorized under the
> Act, including the transportation of nuclear waste.
Tribes are neither state nor local governments. They are nations. If a
tribe wished to pass a law or laws curtailing nuclear waste trafficing
through their lands could they not? Are there not examples (New York?)
where tribes have controlled traffic (in general) coming on/through
reservation lands?
Helene