Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning of October 4--as the haze lifted over Olympia--she was tougher than usual. Standing in front of a small group of reporters, Ray announced that she had shut down the Hanford, Wash., radioactive waste dumping site. A spot check of trucks carrying sludge into the state had revealed serious violations of federal regulations on transporting hazardous materials...
...United States growing waste disposal problems have been brought to the public's attention in the last month by a series of incidents. First, Ray shut down the Hanford site, causing a slight panic among the nation's universities and hospitals which depend on radioactive maerials for their experiments. A couple of weeks later, Nevada Gov. Robert List shut down the second of the nation's three radioactive waste burial grounds at Beatty, Nev. "I'm just tired of having to assume the responsibility for having our people take the risks in a system which is not properly regulated," List...
...really surprising, however. After all, nobody wants to be the person to start the national battle over whose backyard should have which nuclear dump--especially in an election year. In the Northeast, which generates about 40 per cent of the nation's radioactive waste but has no disposal sites, state governments have followed the federal lead, skillfully avoiding the problem...
...Massachusetts, which a 1976 government study indicates is one of the 12 largest state producers of waste, the legislature is considering a bill to regulate hazardous waste disposal. But the legislature's session ended just this week--and it never brought up the problem. "Every state has dragged its heels and neglected its responsibilities," says one Harvard safety official. And the feds are trying to dump the problem on the states. Says Goetz Oertal, the DOE's director of waste products, "It's a choice each state is going to have to make...
...curb that hysteria, and depoliticize the issue, the federal and state officials must draw up inform national regulations. The policy should include a plan for costly on-site waste incineration--a process which many feel may help solve transportation risks--and regional low-level dumping sites. Incoherent federal regulations governing transportation of hazardous materials must be tightened...