[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 92 (Thursday, June 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   H.R. 1270 WILL DESTROY ENVIRONMENT

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. Wake up America. The 
headline news from a June 20th New York Times article reads: ``Doubt 
Cast on Prime Site as Nuclear Waste Dump.'' The article states that 
``researchers have found that rain water, which could dissolve nuclear 
waste, has seeped from the top of the mountain to 800 feet into its 
innards, where high-level waste would be stored, in just 40 years, much 
faster than scientists had predicted.''
  The scientists had originally believed that it would take hundreds of 
thousands of years to travel the same distance. The article goes on to 
say that the find ``raises the possibility that radiation would be 
spread into the environment much sooner then they anticipated.''
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1270 will destroy the environment and endanger 
lives. Do not waste your votes. I urge my colleagues to oppose this 
very bad bill.

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