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Environment, Energy and Transportation ProgramRadioactive Waste NewsA Quarterly Summary of Generation, Transportation, Storage and Disposal Issues
Summer 2001
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Federal Activity |
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The U.S. EPA announced public health and environmental protection standards for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.
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State/Local/Tribal |
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Public interest groups in Nevada and California are urging the Bush administration to adopt strict radiation standards for the potential high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.
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Transportation |
12 |
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board has tentatively approved the construction of a 32-mile rail line between the proposed temporary storage facility on the Goshute reservation to the existing Union Pacific railroad at Low, Utah.
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On-Site Storage |
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A U.S. District Court judge dismissed a Connecticut Yankee lawsuit against the town of Haddam, Conn.
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Low-Level Waste |
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The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the sovereign immunity clause of the U.S. Constitution's Eleventh Amendment protects Nebraska from claims filed by US Ecology and several utilities that planned to use the proposed Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact facility.
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