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The Nation - News from June 28, 1985

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A compromise to guarantee all states access through 1992 to the nation’s three disposal sites for commercial low-level nuclear waste won unanimous approval from a House Interior subcommittee headed by Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). The legislation is a slightly modified version of a plan offered earlier this month by South Carolina Gov. Richard W. Riley as a means of settling a long-standing dispute over use of the dumps in his state and in Washington and Nevada.

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