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LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls, Pocatello – Weather, News, Sports – Western states want foreign waste loophole shut

Western states want foreign waste loophole shutAssociated Press – October 23, 2008  ETSALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah and seven other western states want a radioactive waste compact in the southeast to help change a regulation that allows foreign nuclear waste to be disposed in Utah.The Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste is asking 1 of its southeastern counterparts to join forces so EnergySolutions Inc. can’t relabel foreign waste as domestic waste once it undergoes processing in Tennessee.The compact has banned the Salt Lake City-based company from accepting foreign waste at its dump in the western Utah desert.

EnergySolutions contends the compact has no authority over the dump.

A federal court is expected to rule next fall on the matter.

LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls, Pocatello – Weather, News, Sports – Western states want foreign waste loophole shut

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October 24, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics