EIS-0113_Section_9 - Hanford Site
EIS-0113_Section_9 - Hanford Site
EIS-0113_Section_9 - Hanford Site
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mac live quantities of chemical waste currently in the single-<br />
in the ongoing site selection process for high level was te<br />
shalltanke and contaminating. <strong>Hanford</strong> soil. This chemical<br />
repositories. I have cosponsored legislation to rectify this<br />
3.1.6 .1 contamination is a dangerous environmental and Health threat.<br />
The Department of energy must .take immediate action to identify<br />
serious oversight, and I caution the Department not to make the<br />
same error in considering defense waste disposal options. I<br />
3.4.2.23<br />
the hazardous chemicals at <strong>Hanford</strong> and ensure that each disposal<br />
join the citizens of Spokane and other communities on potential<br />
al ternative specificall y addresse o . chemical contamination.<br />
transportation corridors in urging the Department of Energy to<br />
carefully consider the transportation impacts of its defen se<br />
In addition, the Draft Environmental Impact Statement does<br />
past. motion.. In addition, it 10 . important that the Final<br />
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not indicate that the Department Of Energy intends to comply<br />
with the requirements and the intent of federal and state<br />
Environmental Impact Statement includes an explanation of the<br />
federal assistance which x111 be made available to. 10 0e1<br />
environmental laws. The Washington Department of Ecology<br />
emergency response providers.<br />
already has fined the Department of Energy for Han£Ord's non-<br />
2.4.1.1<br />
compliance with certain environmental law. The Department's<br />
non-compliance with these environmental laws can not be<br />
I strongly Support the Department of Energy's efforts to<br />
clean up <strong>Hanford</strong>. I will continue to work for adequate federal<br />
tolerated.<br />
TheDepnftment of Energy must demonstrate that its defen se<br />
waste actions can satisfy federal and State laws. in the Final<br />
funding to support the se efforts, including continuing work on a<br />
facility to process rather than bury the N-Seactor i z cadfoactive<br />
discharge, pumping radioactive liquid out of single-shell tanks p<br />
and researching and developing technologi es , such as the<br />
2.3.2.12<br />
2.4.1.1<br />
Environmental Impact Statement, the Department should indicate<br />
its intent to comply with all . appropriate federal and aLate laws<br />
to protect public health and the env ir onment.<br />
glaneffication facility, for immobilising nuclear waste.<br />
Another concern which deserves special note is the impact<br />
3.4.2.23 of the transportation of defense waste. In my view, the<br />
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Department has not adequately addressed transportation impacts