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Jan 4 the day for critical nuclear waste dump vote, Vermont and Texas

A Last-Minute Choice by Texas and Vermont,  NYTimes.com,  December 30, 2010, By MATTHEW L. WALD Vermont and Texas, the odd couple of nuclear waste disposal, are proceeding with a plan to allow 36 other states to use a dump site under development in west Texas, despite the misgivings of Vermont’s incoming governor, Peter Shumlin, about the move.The issue confronts the two states because 16 years ago they formed a “compact” to establish a repository for low-level radioactive waste.

Under federal law, states in a compact can limit a dump site to their own use. But with a dump now being developed in Andrews, Tex., near the New Mexico state line, a commission made up of representatives of the two states has proposed letting in waste from other states.

A public comment period ended on Dec. 26. The commission has scheduled a vote for Jan. 4, two days before Mr. Shumlin is scheduled to take office in Montpelier………..

A Last-Minute Choice by Texas and Vermont – NYTimes.com

December 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general