REGIONAL
COMPACT NEWS
The Northeast
Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact has
secured an approximately 50 year arrangement with the State
of South Carolina for access to the LLRW disposal facility in
Barnwell, South Carolina for LLRW generated in New Jersey and
Connecticut. The arrangement includes the admittance of South
Carolina to the Northeast Compact that will now be known as
the Atlantic Compact. You can visit the Atlantic
Compact website at http://www.atlanticcompact.org.
This arrangement
was secured without the use of taxpayer monies. Details of this
arrangement can be found in the following documents:
Northeast
Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Final Rule
for Declaration of Party State Eligibility, May 15, 2000
April
28, 2000 letter from Jim Hodges, Governor of South Carolina,
to Kevin McCarthy, Chairman of the Northeast Compact regarding
a petition for declaration of South Carolina as eligible to
join the Northeast Compact
Atlantic
Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Implementation
Act, signed by Governor Hodges on June 6, 2000
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