And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://insidedenver.com/news/0317alla8.shtml"> http://insidedenver.com/news/0317alla8.shtml</A> ======================================================= Allard issues ultimatum to EPA over wastes at Rocky Flats By Berny Morson News Staff Writer U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard Tuesday demanded the Environmental Protection Agency explain delays in issuing paperwork needed to begin shipping nuclear waste from Rocky Flats to a burial site in New Mexico. In a letter to EPA administrator Carol Browner, Allard said he wants an answer a week from today. If Browner doesn't meet that deadline, "We're going to have to step up the pressure somehow," the Republican senator said. "I'm not exactly sure how we might do that, but we have appropriations bills, we have appointments coming through," he said. "We have other ways in which a member of the Senate can put pressure on an agency." Allard said in his letter that he set the deadline for a response because other members of the Colorado congressional delegation have been seeking answers from the EPA since October. EPA officials did not immediately return phone calls. Tim Rehder, the team leader for Rocky Flats issues at the EPA's Denver office, said the plant passed an inspection required before shipments can begin. But formal certification is pending in Washington. Allard raised questions again after a report last week in the Denver Rocky Mountain News that so much waste is piling up at the defunct nuclear weapons plant that it will have to be stored in tents beginning this summer. The waste was supposed to go to the burial site near Carlsbad, N.M. "I was flabbergasted when I found out they were thinking about storing waste there at Rocky Flats in tents when we've got a $2.1 billion facility in New Mexico," Allard said. "To me, it just doesn't make any sense." ====================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come check out our brand new web site! http://www.onelist.com Onelist: Making the Internet intimate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch"We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." -Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 45 after Pottsdam and the "baby was born"""The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."."-Attributed to Thomas Alva Edisonn"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"t"-George Orwell &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
