Hearing set on nuke water case
Friday, May 31, 2002 | 10:45 a.m.
CARSON CITY -- U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt has set June 11 for a hearing on the suits U.S. Department of Energy to gain temporary and permanent water rights for the proposed nuclear dump at Yucca Mountain.
Senior Deputy state Attorney General Marta Adams said today she was pleased the judge set the hearing that will be held in Las Vegas.
"Let's get going," she said. "We want to hear why the Energy Department needs this water."
The state Engineer's Office refused to issue a permanent water right to the Energy Department on grounds it was against the public interest of Nevada.
And the office refused to extend temporary water permits.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, said that without water the Energy Department will be unable to complete scientific studies to provide "a reasonable assurance that the public and the environment will be adequately protected from the hazards posed by high level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel."
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