Is it not true that some of those other compacts have provided representation for the very county and the very region where the regional facility would be located and that this particular compact does not give the people of El Paso or Sierra Blanca or Van Horn or Pecos or any of the area affected or any of the places through which that waste might be moved like Austin, Texas, they do not get any representation guaranteed in this compact agreement, do they?
Lloyd Doggett: “Is it not true that some of those other compacts have provided representation for the very county and the very region…”
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Questioning the lack of representation in a compact agreement affecting Texas regions.
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