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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

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