219 groups issue petition demanding disqualification of Yucca Mountain as waste site.
November 18, 1998 Mr. Bill Richardson Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, D.C. 20585 Dear Secretary Richardson: The undersigned organizations, on behalf of our combined memberships, request that you immediately disqualify the Yucca Mountain, Nevada site and declare it unsuitable for further consideration as a high-level nuclear waste repository.…