RE: Next Shot

[jdelahunt@cc.colorado.edu]

>Captain Plutonium!

*fanfare*

>Ah yes, the 20th century, where we spend BILLIONS of taxpayers dollars
>"remediating" risks that are comparable to eating a banana every 10 days
>(deadly potassium-40).  I personally can't think of any better way to spend
>public funds.  
>
>Regulators who want to remediate all risks, REGARDLESS of any consideration of
>costs or the reality of those risks, need to ask themselves some hard
>questions.

In defense (gasp) of the regulators, some/many of the
requirements they impose are statutory.

Which means they come from OUR elected officials (or the
industry lobbyist for/against the issue).  On top of that,
the legislation that imposes these compliance burdens on us
results from disasters/apparent disasters (times beach =
TSCA, love canal, et al = RCRA, bhopal = EPCRA, pittsburgh =
CWA and CAA, etc, etc).

All things considered the laws weren't writted for
educational institutions (or national labs), nor were the
regs.  We have to interp and adopt them to our facilites,
as best we can, which is rarely an easy task.

Blaming the regulators is counter-productive.  Educating
them is useful.

Hope this helps.

John

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