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Holiday In Wales Facing a national nuclear cleanup costing at least $220 billion and lasting several decades, the U.S. Department of Energy is pushing what it believes is a faster, cheaper approach that requires setting aside environmental regulations and longstanding agreements with states.

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Holiday Wales The agency's new "Risk-Based End States Vision" is premised on limiting the cleanup of factories and labs contaminated by cold war weapons work to no more than is needed to protect humans or wildlife.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales Far from being embraced, the Energy Department's idea is forging a uniquely broad coalition of opponents.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales Federal and state regulators are up in arms. Traditional Energy Department allies in Congress and in the towns that grew up around U.S. weapons sites are allying themselves with nuclear-disarmament activists and environmentalists.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales In California and Ohio, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning its sister federal agency to join state agencies in fighting the cleanup plan.

Holiday Last Minute Wales Kathy Setian, a Superfund cleanup manager for EPA's Region 9, headquartered in San Francisco, called the Energy Department's latest idea "an extraordinary proposal."

Catering Holiday Self Wales Taken at face value, DOE's new cleanup plan would require states such as California to overlook several environmental regulations. It seeks to revamp state-federal-tribal agreements on cleanup that took years to negotiate, without offering the kind of rationale that regulators legally would demand of a private business, federal and state regulators said.

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Family Holiday Wales At Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab, for example, the Energy Department would move the point at which it has to meet groundwater cleanup standards from the aquifer itself to the site boundary, leaving water under the lab contaminated.

Holiday Riding Wales That would require the state's Water Quality Control Board to overlook its "anti-degradation policy" against allowing contamination of potential future drinking-water resources.

Adventure Holiday Wales "Everyone in the remediation business knows that it is easier to clean up the contamination at the source than to let it spread and then try to clean it up," EPA's Setian said. "It's kind of like being penny-wise and pound-foolish."

Holiday Park South Wales The Energy Department's latest cleanup scheme is the brainchild of Assistant Secretary Jessie Roberson, a former cleanup official at the Rocky Flats plutonium-pit plant near Boulder, Colo. But it's hardly a new idea.

Cottage Holiday Wales Federal, state and local regulators heard the phrase "risk-based" cleanup repeatedly as Clinton administration officials tried to finagle the largest environmental cleanup in history, priced as high as $300 billion and estimated to last until late this century.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales Congress rarely is enthusiastic about dispensing DOE's cleanup money, preferring its other, competing charges -- water projects, nuclear weapons, oil and gas markets and defense spending. Lawmakers welcome ideas for saving on cleanup.

Caravan Holiday In Wales But cities and states say they already negotiated "risk-based" cleanups with the Energy Department in the late 1980s and 1990s, and they're wary of the agency's retreating from its promises.

Camping Holiday Wales "The city of Livermore strongly recommends that now is not the time to change the speed or standards for the cleanup of the groundwater contamination," City Manager Linda Barton wrote the Energy Department last week.

Accommodation Holiday Wales At Livermore, a plume of chemical solvents and toxic metals has tainted an estimated three billion gallons of groundwater, reaching past the lab's western fence line and up to 200 feet deep.

Holiday Last Minute Wales Lab and DOE environmental scientists attacked the plume aggressively, pulling contaminants out with two dozen pumps and treating them.

Catering Holiday Self Wales They're using intriguing new technologies, such as exposing solvents to ultraviolet light or filtering them underground through tiny palladium balls.

Holiday Wales Walking In recent years, they stopped the plume's westward march toward Livermore's city wells, about a mile and a half away.

Family Holiday Wales The pumps are pulling the tainted water back toward the lab, while siphoning off the original chemical spills that feed the plume.

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Adventure Holiday Wales Federal and state regulators, the city and environmentalists acknowledge the cleanup could take 50 years but say they're pleased with the progress.

Holiday Park South Wales And the local Energy Department cleanup manager said he's unsure whether his agency's revised cleanup "vision" will result in cost savings, for example, if pumps have to be relocated.

Cottage Holiday Wales "We are already well-developed. We already look at cleanup from a risk base," said Roy Kearns, cleanup manager for DOE's Livermore Site Office. "We're having great success."

Holiday In Wales Several states compromised heavily with the Energy Department in the 1990s, agreeing to lower cleanup costs by allowing tons of radioactive wastes to remain on defunct nuclear sites, partly relying on DOE's promise to watch them and clean them up if needed.

Holiday Wales They're wary of DOE abandoning those agreements under its new plan.

Cottage Holiday In Wales "We would caution anyone who follows us down this road to 'risk-based end states' that you ensure you have the ability to protect your state and its health, in case of neglect by a responsible federal agency," said James D. Werner, a former Energy Department cleanup official who is now chief of land and water programs at Missouri's Department of Natural Resources.

Caravan Holiday In Wales "The view of DOE appears to be, 'Trust us,'" Werner said. "We in Missouri would say, 'Show me.'"

Camping Holiday Wales By Ian Hoffman
Oakland Tribune - 1/22/2004

Topic: Nuclear

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