OpinionlEditorial New Environmental Impact Statement ...

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OpinionlEditorial New Environmental Impact Statement Urgently Needed for Los Alamos Nuclear Facility

Opinion hy ~lyf'a ~lahef' and Astrid Wehstef'

JelllL'l. Spring .. ~lands ill a

H'ry p()\\\'rf'lll po:-.ilillll \vith respect

tn a nlt!ch-nl.~cdcd l::Il,"ironmclHal

Impact Statl'ment 1[IS) I"rlhe ne\\'

CheJl1islry and ~'ktallurg\' ResearL'il

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bci litO'

ICMRR?NF)at LosAlamosNational

Lab, The Santa Fe City Council and

Santa Fe Coumy Commission h"w

passed a joint rcsollnion calling

for a new lOIS, a leller of request

I"rolll Penasco. as well as Governor

Mada1cna of Jemo Pueblo, asking

for a new study 10 refleci the scope

of thl' projGct as it has evolved.

Myra Maher, a village

rt.'sidcllt and real estate broker. spoke from her professional experience regarding {he first sale of a brownlield site in New Mexico at Deecmber's Jemez Springs Village Council Meeting, saying that thc si/.e and em,t of the project had increasc,d bv a factor of ten. That and thL' previous ElS hcing seven years old. and relating to both tile previous size and cost, rendered it invalid. Our concern, she said, is for those who work in Ihe facility as wcll as those who live in the surrounding

areas ilnd the environmental impact un the surrounds.

Astrid Webster, who frequently visib the area but lives in AIbuquerq UC, al tended the meeti ng at the request of the Los Alamos Study Group, e.xprcs:-.ed equal (ut\ccrn fot" the natural environment on which many area residents depend for their rood. incllll1c:-, and rccn:!atioll. Her L',lmI1lCnts echoed Trustee John Me.rhege \\'ho cxpres:-.cd concern for the fragility ot nearhy I'nrest land, the prolife-ration of sacred sites and the inconsistency or environmcntal P[\Hc.l?IItHb enforccd in the arca.

V./ebstcr

'H!rct!'o.

thai

protecting the forest i.~llt watershed

from hUllting. fishing. grazing

and recreating were neither a~

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