On the recordJune 26, 1997
here we go again. Wake up America. The headline news from a June 20th New York Times article reads: ``Doubt Cast on Prime Site as Nuclear Waste Dump.'' The article states that ``researchers have found that rain water, which could dissolve nuclear waste, has seeped from the top of the mountain to 800 feet into its innards, where high-level waste would be stored, in just 40 years, much faster than scientists had predicted.'' The scientists had originally believed that it would take hundreds of thousands of years to travel the same distance. The article goes on to say that the find ``raises the possibility that radiation would be spread into the environment much sooner then they anticipated.'' Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1270 will destroy the environment and endanger lives. Do not waste your votes. I urge my colleagues to oppose this very bad bill.
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