Re: Ohio legislation re landfills

[avest@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Albert Lee Vest)]

Bringing this dangerous *legislation* to our attention is a great service to 
the HP community, IMHO.  Thank you!
But I wish you hadn't said -

>Experience has shown me, though, that "dangerous" could mean >anything 
above background.

Statements like that have the potential to turn a case of latent radiophobia 
to an acute one, quoted out of context.

>The Health Physics Society just released a position statement >that would 
apply here, I believe.  Has this
>been considered by our legislators?

If not, maybe we ought to be sending e-mail (the preferred mode of 
communication of members of this list?) to "our" legislators. Anybody know 
what their addresses are?  I know there's at least one lawyer subscribed to 
RADSAFE - the one who posted names and phone numbers of Midwest Compact 
commissioners a while back.  Can you give us some help now, if you have 
ready access to e-mail addresses at the statehouse?  Please?

>Okay fellow Ohioans.  Let's kick this one around a little!
>
>Best regards,
>Carl
>

That way, if we lose, at least we go down kicking.

Albert Vest                        avest@ohio-state.edu
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