Comment period extended for foreign nuke waste import issue (in Utah)

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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8459016

Comment period extended for foreign nuke waste import issue
By Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 03/05/2008 06:42:43 AM MST

Federal regulators, responding to a crush of comments on a Utah company's request to import low-level radioactive waste from Italy, have extended the period for public comment.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has set June 10 as the new deadline for commenting on the waste-import license requested by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions. On Tuesday, the commission noted it had "had a number of requests for an extension" of the original comment period, due to end March 12.

The Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL) was among those seeking an extension. Vanessa Pierce, the group's executive director, said HEAL had fielded calls from concerned people from as far away as Boston.

"This proposal is one of national significance," she said, noting that the public ought to have an opportunity to review it. "Extending the deadline will help ensure the general public can make their views known."

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1. Yeahhhhhh

Maybe now, Oral Hatch will glow in the dark....................