[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: "Los Alamos lab asks New Mexico for more time..."

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Los Alamos lab asks New Mexico for more time to meet mandated cleanup  
milestones

ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 25, 2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Los Alamos National Laboratory is asking the  
state of New Mexico for more time to meet some mandated cleanup  
milestones as it faces shifting priorities and uncertainty about its  
environmental cleanup budget.

The northern New Mexico lab would be able to speed up the shipment of  
radioactive waste from lab property to a permanent disposal site if  
allowed to shift resources to higher priority work, George Rael, head  
of environmental management for the federal government's Los Alamos  
Site Office told the Albuquerque Journal.

The changes in lab cleanup priorities come amid discussion among the  
state, the lab and members of the public regarding the lab's 2005  
agreement on environmental cleanup milestones.

...


For the entire article, see
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ 
69e47155064241388a422af99f935149/NM--Los-Alamos-Cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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