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III. CONCLUSIONS<br />

Subject to the above recommendations, suggestions, and comments, the<br />

Bearing Board concludes that:<br />

I. The Statement seriously and impressively analyzes the environmental<br />

impacts <strong>of</strong>'proposed actions for solving the problem <strong>of</strong> disposing<br />

<strong>of</strong> commercially generated high-level radioactive waste.<br />

2. The Statement has served effectively as a vehicle for public<br />

comment and for indicating and generating changes that should be made<br />

in the final statement.<br />

3. The Statement supports the conclusion, in principle, that commercially<br />

generated high-level radioactive waste can be disposed <strong>of</strong> by one or more<br />

alternative strategies with minimal and acceptable environmental<br />

consequences,'and that the present preferred disposal option is a deep,<br />

mined geologic repository.<br />

The Board is concerned that the longer the delay in implementing an<br />

appropriate strategy to solve the problem <strong>of</strong> high-level radioactive<br />

waste disposal, the greater the erosion <strong>of</strong> political, scientific, and public<br />

support essential for such a strategy.

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