[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 83 (Monday, June 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 27, 1994]
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        URANIUM STOCKPILES IN COLORADO A REAL CAUSE FOR CONCERN

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I continue to be amazed at the new, new 
era at the Department of Energy. I just came from a briefing held by 
Hazel O'Leary that really makes me breathe much easier. The news is not 
good, but at least we finally have the truth in front of us.
  Hazel O'Leary announced today that there are 6.7 metric tons of 
highly enriched uranium right outside my district in Rocky Flats. We 
never knew about this. This has been highly classified since 1945. 
Everybody has been very worried about the plutonium, and we now find 
that there is also this huge pile of highly enriched uranium that is 
still there.
  Now at least we can get on with what we really need to do to clean it 
up, and it is time we realized that all these things we had out there 
to scare the Soviet Union during the cold war is now terrifying 
America's citizens now that that war has stopped. But we must do 
everything we can to change that, get it cleaned up, and put the West 
back the way it was.

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