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