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NUCLEAR WASTE TRANSPORTATION RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, documentation provided by the State of Nevada indicates that
high-level radioactive waste may be transported through Anson County as early as
1998 if HR 1020 (the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1995) or similar legislation be
enacted by the US Congress; and
WHEREAS, Anson County does not have adequately trained emergency response
personnel or equipment to cope with a radiological disaster that could occur as
a result of high-level radioactive waste transportation through this
jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, the federal government, under HR 1020 and similar legislation,
would limit funding to Anson County for training of emergency response personnel
and for purchase of necessary equipment to cope with a radiological emergency;
and
WHEREAS, property values are likely to fall, attraction of new business is
likely to fail, and improvement of the community may become difficult or
impossible should high-level radioactive waste be transported through Anson
County; and
WHEREAS, this high-level radioactive waste would be transported to an "interim"
site in Nevada, and thus does little to solve the nation's radioactive waste
problem; and
WHEREAS, we generally oppose high-level radioactive waste transportation
through Anson County;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Anson County is on record as opposing HR 1020
and all similar legislation which would require high-level radioactive waste
transportation near or through this jurisdiction; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Anson County supports creation of an
independent presidential review commission to reexamine our nation's radioactive
waste policy; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Anson County will carry this Resolution to all
of our elected state and federal officials.
Passed, November 1995
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