Colo. Legislature passes uranium cleanup bill

[bananas]

Source: Associated Press

DENVER -- Colorado lawmakers have passed a bill that requires uranium mills to clean up radioactive waste before accepting more radioactive material.

The Senate voted 24-9 in favor of the bill Wednesday. Later the House agreed with changes made in the Senate and readopted the bill by a vote of 60-3. It now goes to Gov. Bill Ritter.

Mills are now allowed to postpone cleanup until they finish production and decommission their facilities. Lawmakers are concerned that a national focus on nuclear energy will allow mines to postpone cleanup while they ramp up production.

Plans to revive a uranium mill in Canon City - a Superfund site since 1984 - and open a mill in Montrose County led environmentalists and activists to push for a change this year.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042803895.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Good move by the legislation

That has gone WAY beyond time for them to clean up their crap.

Rocky Flats was finally decommissioned after years of cleanup.

We've got Globeville, St. Vrain Valley, and the others just mentioned above that hasn't been cleaned up.

[dencol]

2. Proud to be from Colorado

Udall, Bennet, and Perlmutter seem to be wonderful. And of course, there seem to be many great people running this state.

[happygoluckytoyou]

3. clean up after yourselves.... WHAT A CONCEPT ....imagine if the COAL industry did that

[ensho]

4. good. smart move. hope it doesn't take forever to start the work

nt