Article: No Hazardous Waste Found In Barrels

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

No Hazardous Waste Found In Barrels - (ALBUQUERQUE) -- 
Federal scientists say selected nuclear waste destined for a 
repository near Carlsbad shows NO signs of hazardous material... 
and should be allowed to move before a state permit is issued. The 
U-S Department of Energy presented its findings yesterday to the 
state Environment Department and asked the agency to allow them 
to dump the material at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant without a 
permit. Last month, Susan McMichael, the state Environment 
Department's WIPP Project Manager, said it would be next 
summer before the DOE could expect a Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act permit for hazardous waste disposal. But the 
state left the door open to the disposal of waste that could be 
proven free of hazardous chemicals. 

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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