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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “So what would be the evidence then of whether or not there was anything harmful there if it was buried that deep?”

On the recordJune 9, 2009
So what would be the evidence then of whether or not there was anything harmful there if it was buried that deep?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the evidence of buried harmful materials.

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