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FYI.
Another time to take the bull by the horns!
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> From: "Ken DeBacker" <>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:27 PM
> Subject: Nuclear Waste
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> > Subject: Please call Senator Campbell today-Please forward this urgent
> alert on high level nuclear waste
> >
> > Dear Colleagues - Senator Ben Campbell is seen as a swing vote on the
> > High Level Waste votes which will be happening shortly. We really need
> > help in getting constituent calls into his office to ask him to support
> > the motion to strike DOE's authority to reclassify high-level
> > radioactive waste. Please call ASAP! Thanks for your help. Please
> > pass this action alert to others who will make calls quickly. Susan
> > Gordon, Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountabilty
> >
> > On the House side, Joel Hefley is seen as a swing vote too. Thanks!!
> > Judith Mohling, Rocky MOuntain Peace and Justice Center
> >
> > URGENT ACTION ALERT: Defense Authorization Bill Tell Congress to strike
> > DOE's authority to reclassify high-level radioactive waste and cut new
> > nuclear weapons programs, including the bunker buster, mini-nukes, and a
> > new plutonium bomb plant. Call your Senators and Representatives at
> > 202-224-3121 (Congressional switchboard). Write your Senators and
> > Representatives using email at
> > http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
> >
> > Timing: Act Now! Both the House of Representatives and the Senate are
> > expected to bring the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill to the
> > floor the week of May 17. The Senate will vote on a motion to strike
> > DOE's authority to reclassify high-level radioactive waste. Both the
> > House and Senate are expected to vote on funding for key nuclear weapons
> > programs. · High Level Radioactive Waste - Support the motion to
> > strike DOE's authority to reclassify high-level radioactive waste.
> > Uphold the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and designate that the $350 million
> > in DOE's "High Level Waste Fund" be spent on continuing cleanup of the
> > high level waste tanks. The DOE urgently needs to clean up the mess now,
> > not "cap and cover" the waste, jeopardizing the water supply of those
> > downstream for generations to come.
> >
> > Please forward!! Defense Authorization Bill on Senate and House Floor
> > This Week The Defense Authorization bill is expected to reach the floor
> > in the Senate Monday with votes occuring as early as Monday evening and
> > debate and votes taking place up until Thursday evening. The House is
> > expected to take up the bill on the floor beginning Wednesday. We are
> > anticipating the following motions and amendments relevant to our
> > priorities:
> > SENATE (Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill, S. 2400) *
> > High-Level Waste - Senators Cantwell (D-WA), Hollings (D-SC) and
> > possibly others are expected to offer a motion to strike sections 3116
> > and 3119 relating to the high-level waste issue. Section 3116 would (1)
> > exempt DOE from complying with the requirements of the Nuclear Waste
> > Policy Act (NWPA) in South Carolina; (2) overturn an Idaho federal court
> > ruling that DOE may not arbitrarily and unilaterally reclassify
> > high-level radioactive waste; and (3) allow DOE sole discretion in
> > deciding what is high-level radioactive waste in South Carolina. Section
> > 3119 eliminates $350 million in necessary nuclear waste cleanup funding
> > to Idaho and Washington unless they agree by June 1, 2005 to allow DOE>
> > sole discretion to reclassify high-level radioactive waste as "waste
> > incidental to reprocessing." * Nuclear Weapons - Senators Feinstein
> > (D-CA) and Kennedy (D-MA) are expected to offer an amendment to strike
> > all funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (bunker buster) and
> > Advanced Concepts Initiative. Senators Feinstein and Kennedy are not
> > including the Modern Pit Facility in their amendment because the
> > committee incorporated language restricting 50 percent of funding for
> > the MPF until 30 days after the NNSA submits a report on pit production
> > requirements as well as the Stockpile Plan. Their feeling was that it
> > would be better to move forward with that language as support for future
> > conferencing in Energy & Water approps following anticipated cuts to MPF
> > in the House rather than lose on a vote and scare appropriators away
> > from cutting the MPF.
> >
> > HOUSE (Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill, H.R. 4200)
> >
> > * Nuclear Weapons - Reps. Tauscher (D-CA) and Markey (D-MA) are expected
> > to offer an amendment to strike all funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth
> > Penetrator and Advanced Concepts Intitiatve.
> >
> > * Modern Pit Facility - Rep. Markey (D-MA) is expected to offer an
> > amendment to strike all funding for the Modern Pit Facility. Unlike the
> > Senate where Senators are free to offer up amendments, the House
> > amendments will have to be ruled in order by the Rules Committee, which
> > is not expected to make a decision until late Tuesday night, ahead of
> > the Wednesday floor action. Thus we have to mobilize in support of both,
> > in anticipation that one or both come to the floor. The ANA alert on
> > these issues is reprinted below.
> >
> > URGENT ACTION ALERT: Defense Authorization Bill Tell Congress to strike
> > DOE's authority to reclassify high-level radioactive waste and cut new
> > nuclear weapons programs, including the bunker buster, mini-nukes, and a
> > new plutonium bomb plant. Call your Senators and Representatives at
> > 202-224-3121 (Congressional switchboard). Write your Senators and
> > Representatives using email at
> > http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
> >
> > Timing: Act Now! Both the House of Representatives and the Senate are
> > expected to bring the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill to the
> > floor the week of May 17. The Senate will vote on a motion to strike
> > DOE's authority to reclassify high-level radioactive waste. Both the
> > House and Senate are expected to vote on funding for key nuclear weapons
> > programs.
> >
> > Background: Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) pushed a provision through
> > committee providing South Carolina with an exemption to the Nuclear
> > Waste Policy Act, allowing the Department of Energy to abandon millions
> > of gallons of highly radioactive waste behind in rusting tanks at the
> > Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Funding for cleanup of high-level
> > waste at other key sites in Washington and Idaho is being held hostage
> > until those states agree to DOE's proposal to also leave more waste
> > behind at those sites. The DOE wants the exemption so it can cement the
> > wastes in place as part of its accelerated cleanup strategy to "finish"
> > cleanup early and save billions of dollars. Doing so, however, would
> > create massive high level waste dumps at these sites and threaten future
> > generations with severe contamination. The federal court in Idaho
> > already ruled in 2003 against DOE's plan to reclassify waste. The DOE
> > has appealed the case, but the affected states have all submitted
> > friends of the court briefs opposing DOE's plan. Congress is also about
> > to vote on key nuclear weapons programs. The President has requested the
> > highest budget for nuclear weapons research, development, testing and
> > production programs since the all-time record set under President Reagan>
> > during the Cold War. At a time of war and record deficits, Congress
> > needs your support to cut the nuclear weapons budget and curb the
> > pursuit of new nuclear weapons programs. These programs send a clear "do
> > as I say, not as I do" message to the rest of the world and threaten to
> > undermine the nation's attempts to stem the world's appetite for weapons
> > of mass destruction. Three key nuclear weapons programs are likely to be
> > voted on in Congress, the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, the Advanced
> > Concepts Initiative, and the Modern Pit Facility. · High Level
> > Radioactive Waste - Support the motion to strike DOE's authority to
> > reclassify high-level radioactive waste. Uphold the Nuclear Waste Policy
> > Act and designate that the $350 million in DOE's "High Level Waste Fund"
> > be spent on continuing cleanup of the high level waste tanks. The DOE
> > urgently needs to clean up the mess now, not "cap and cover" the waste,
> > jeopardizing the water supply of those downstream for generations to
> > come. · Nuclear Bunker Buster - Eliminate the $27.5 million in
> > funding for the "Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator," research and
> > development to modify two existing types of nuclear weapons with
> > explosive powers fifty times that of the bomb used over Hiroshima for
> > destroying deep underground bunkers. Even these large nuclear weapons
> > would be ineffective to the depths that modern bunkers can be built and
> > the collateral damage from such an explosion would kill millions if the
> > bunker was located beneath a major city.
> >
> > · Advanced Nuclear Weapons - Eliminate the $9 million in funding
> > for the "Advanced Concepts Initiative" which gives U.S. nuclear weapons
> > labs money to design new mini-nuclear weapons and other new nukes. Even
> > the smallest yield nuclear earth penetrator would create heavy
> > collateral damage. Their small size could lead the President to more
> > readily consider their use in future conflicts. Their research,
> > development and potential use encourages other nations to consider them
> > a desirable weapon to own. · New Nuclear Bomb Plant - Eliminate
> > the $29.8 million in funding for the "Modern Pit Facility," a factory
> > that will cost at least $4 billion and could produce 125-450 plutonium
> > pits, the cores of modern nuclear warheads, each year. The United States
> > and Russia are supposed to be reducing their arsenals of nuclear weapons
> > under the "Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty," not building new
> > ones. Replacement warheads are not needed as new studies are finding
> > that existing weapons last much longer than previously expected.
> >
> > Tell Congress to support amendments that would maintain standards on
> > high level radioactive waste and cut new nuclear weapons programs. For
> > more information, go to www.ananuclear.org.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Jim Bridgman, Program Director Alliance for Nuclear Accountability 322
> > 4th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 202-544-0217; 202-544-6143 (fax)
> > jcbridgman@e...; www.ananuclear.org
> >
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