Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 22:57:57 +0000
From: "Michael Mariotte" <nirsnet@igc.apc.org>
To: NIRS.ALERT.LIST@igc.org
Subject: URGENT WARD VALLEY NUKE DUMP IN SENATE
HI --
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Friday, Sept. 6, 1996 URGENT WARD VALLEY ALERT:
Senator Murkowski (R,AK) has two Ward Valley Land Transfer amendments which
he is planning to amend to the Interior Appropriations Bill on the Senate
floor, possibly as soon as the week of September 9th. (Similar attempts in
both House and Senate can be expected until the House and Senate adjourn in
early October.) The amendments will transfer federal Bureau of Land
Management land to the State of California, for a radioactive waste dump.
The transfer would occur regardless of the outcome of ongoing environmental
testing, the Dept. of Interior's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
process, despite clear opposition on cultural, spiritual, health and
economic grounds of the five Native American Nations that would be directly
impacted. It also sacrifices the threatened desert tortoise species for whom
Ward Valley is prime critical habitat.
Contact your Senators to OPPOSE the WARD VALLEY LAND TRANSFER in any form--
(as S. 1596, as the Murkowski Amendments to Interior
Appropriations or any other bill)
Call: Senate Switchboard 202-224-3121
Write: US Senate/ Washington, DC 20510
For more information, contact Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear
Information and Resource Service/1424 16th St. NW Suite 404/
Washington, DC 20036/ 202-328-0002.
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