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John Simek, chairman of the TLLRWDA, says a low-level nuclear waste facility is a repository for low- level waste and must maintain con tainment for at least 500 years. The TLLRWDA goal is to locate, construct, operate and manage a low-level waste disposal site. Nuclear wastes from Texas re search universities, hospitals, mili tary bases and nuclear power plants are now being shipped out of state. Steve Murdock, an A&M profes sor and head of the rural sociology department, says that after Jan. 1, 1993, other states will no longer ac cept wastes from facilities outside their state. The state is looking into building the waste disposal site in Hudspeth County, a low-populated area in West Texas. Simek says there are strict site cri teria for the facility such as clay soil, low rainfall, low population and little standing ground water. A Texas Agricultural Experiment Station study says nearly three- fourths of West Texans surveyed do not want such a facility in their neighborhood. Murdock recently interviewed 180 residents, 80 community leaders and 100 citizens of the 2,600 resi dents in Hudspeth County. He found 72 percent are opposed to the waste facility in their region. People are concerned with the po tential for contamination of the wa ter supply, their image, and danger to subsequent generations, he .says. The results were the same for per sons from different age, sex, race and income groups, Murdock says. “The broader issue is how does our society deal with the undesirable by-products of its use of technolo gy,” Murdock says. “Very few people would argue that we should not use X-rays or radiation therapy for can cer treatment, but those types of technology have by-prcxlucts that are undesirable.” Low-level waste is materials like the gown worn during an X-ray, he says. Tom Blackburn, director of spe cial programs for the TLLRWDA, says the hardest thing to overcome is the social stigma of a nucltar»a facility. “It really isn’t as dangen»i people think," he says, “It'smil soc ial and psychological and ila are the hardest things toovcrcosl El Paso County officialshaxj- tained a temporary court injui against the 1 LLRWDA to | its decision on locating a site(oisi facility. KOI fcrt Gt kouldn prison, anyone Blackburn says the ILLIHll members are pleased with whari have done in selecting a acc ordance with what the lature decreed. “The injunction isjusttoslor down," he says. Mm <h>< k s.ns. "A> ,i mi, have a trade-off between thend of the people in a local areav the 1 societal need to dispose of)! level nuclear waste." Blac kburn says there will noth major economical impact! state, but Hudspeth Countyimt IxTiefi ted by the disposal site “There won’t be a bis i statewide; about 20 jobs fromliiti cal area will be involved,"he» About 35 percent to 75 percesi I ludspetb's annual budget wilts from the waste facility, he says State may appeal judicial ruling that will allow home education School districts throughoutTf FORT WORTH (AP) — State at torneys said Wednesday they haven’t decided whether they will appeal a judge’s ruling allowing parents to teach their children at home pro vided they follow an organized cur riculum. view Murray’s ruling, so they did not it will have far-reach- State District Judge Charles Mur ray ruled Tuesday that Texas’ com pulsory school attendance law re quires only that children attend a school with such a curriculum. State law allows for private schools, and home classes are equiva lent to private schooling, he said in his ruling on a class action lawsuit Filed in 1985. know whether ing effects. Home schooling advocates called the ruling a major victory. Cheryl Leeper, who teaches her children, ages 10 and 12, at home, said, “We’re thrilled, absolutely thrilled. The judge said what we’ve believed all along — that home edu cation is a viable alternative.” .>(11001 ctisinas mrougnoui )om j ) had filed criminal lawsuitsiF rourtm ixplosi McK Tom h jlast w lou. . . ee the /Vhy th enow. 1 he last Gray >crugg: :nt ini :ame si :ase. “What’s still up in the air,” said Ron Dusek, a spokesman for Attor ney General Jim Mattox, “is whether the state can establish and mandate some type of curriculum and some type of quality in that curriculum.” Dusek said Wednesday that state attorneys had not had a chance to re- Mrs. Leeper and her husband, Gary, filed the initial lawsuit, against the Arlington school district, that evolved into a class action lawsuit. Other parents and four home school curriculum companies joined the suit. .wm tit/ more than 80 couples wnoifl v | ien ^ their children at home, saying parents were guilty of truancy, In his ruling, Murray nt the school districts hadbroi only against home school ami did not apply the I dards to private schools thatoWif^Y# outside the home. This, amounts to harassment lIVSKllld 1 Ml I tlOOllll. 111. Murray said also that sined I hom State Board of Education and Texas Education Agencyhave diction only in public schools,^ K || e But w Most home schools use lesson plans from companies throughout the country that offer religious- oriented material. Those home schools are accredited through the companies, and therefore comply with state law, the ruling said. lack the authority to define school.’ 'serving , Murray’s ruling prohibits^ Workers, school districts from pad 3 - ' 1 charges against parents whoit^ 1 home. 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