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Texas seeks disposal location
for low-level radioactive waste
By Sondra McCarty
Reporter
The Texas Low-Level Radioactive
Waste Disposal Authority must de
cide where to build a nuclear waste
facility before 1993 to avoid a $12
million fine per year.
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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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
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Murray said also that sined I hom
State Board of Education and
Texas Education Agencyhave
diction only in public schools,^ K || e
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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. But his ruling doesf' 1
school district truant officers^
thority to check occasional!)'Mj
sure that school-age childrenn* 1 ers hoc;
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