Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closed the site after a spot check revealed that three of nine trucks carrying waste into her state were violating safety procedures. The site, she said, would remain closed until officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Transportation--the agencies charged with hazardous materials transportation-strengthened their protective measures...
...nobody counted on community opposition, or the State Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE). Together with MATEP--which community representatives invariably refer to as "Harvard"--the trio locked horns in 1977. The community claimed MATEP's proposed diesel engines would spew large amounts of potentially harmful nitrogen dioxide into their backyards...
...State officials, who say they will do what is necessary to protect the plant, have said they will arrest anyone who trespasses on the site...
...state of Massachusetts was ready for any crowd. More than 1000 policemen, with 7000 more security forces in the downtown area guarded a common cordoned off with hundreds of blue barrels and bedecked with banners. Subways ran at rush hour frequency for much of the day, and several thoroughfares were closed...
...guess we wait patiently," Ferris said. Last May, state officials shut down the Barnwell, S.C., radioactive waste dumping site, forcing Interex to begin shipping Harvard's radioactive waste to the Hanford site...