Circuit court affirms Wash. regulatory authority PDF Print E-mail
Written by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Greenwire   
Friday, 13 March 2009
Washington state has the authority to regulate waste buried at the Hanford nuclear reservation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.

The decision upholds Washington's 2003 order to require the U.S. Department of Energy to remove 75,000 55-gallon drums of hazardous and transuranic waste, which has been stored since the 1970s in the southwestern part of the state.

The Energy Department contended it was exempt from waste management laws passed by states, but the court ruled it was not exempt from the requirements of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the state's Hazardous Waste Management Act.

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