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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
STATE OF lative Butch res
WASHINGTON Legislative Building, Olympia, Washington 98504

Dixy Lee Ray
Governor December 27, 1979

 

Mr. Joshua Lederberg, President
The Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue

New York, NY 10021

Dear Mr. Lederberg:

Thank you for your recent letter responding to the reopening of the low-
level commercial radioactive waste burial site at Hanford.

I have taken two steps in addition to requiring more vigorous enforcement
actions.

I have contacted Washington's Congressional Delegation
asking that either legislation be prepared to authorize
the disposal of certain classes of radioactive waste
within the states that generate them, or to create
additional regional radioactive waste disposal sites.
Such legislation has been introduced by Congressman
McCormack to authorize 12 regional sites. This would
ease the burden for disposal currently on the state of
Washington.

I have asked, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
has agreed, to expand an existing contract with
Washington's Radiation Control Program providing for

our own closer surveillance of shipments of waste which
will be arriving at the disposal site at Hanford.

Your thoughts are appreciated and thank you again for taking the time to
write.

  

Dixy Lee Ray
Governor

 

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