HomeMy WebLinkAbout1745 ResolutionRESOLUTION NO. 1745
A RESOLUTION of the city of Pasco, Washington asking the
President of the United States to require
that the site selection process, including
site characterization studies, for any
potential national spent fuel repository,
for the disposition of high-level nuclear
waste, be based solely upon concerns for
public safety and environmental soundness
based upon detailed technical and
scientific data, and without determinations
of political expediencies; and further
asking the President of the United States
to require that all areas of the United
States be fairly considered and studied for
their potential as a national spent fuel
repository site and to continue to search
for a second repository site in the eastern
United States.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pasco, Washington
because of its proximity to the Hanford site, its dependence upon
the agricultural community in southern Franklin and northern
Benton Counties and its concern for the quality of the water in
the Columbia River which provides the City with its domestic
potable water source has an on-going interest in assuring that
all activities on the Hanford Reservation are conducted in a safe
and environmentally sound manner; and
WHEREAS, the residents of the City of Pasco, Washington
have an immediate and direct personal interest in the health and
safety aspect of activities on the Hanford site; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pasco, Washington
is knowledgeable concerning the issues currently under public
debate concerning the selection of Hanford for further site
characterization studies as a potential national spent fuel
repository for the disposition of high-level nuclear waste; and
WHEREAS. the disposition of high-level nuclear waste is
both a local and national concern, and believing further that it
is in the best interests of the Country that the ultimate
determination of site selection, including the selection of sites
for further site characterization studies must be made solely
upon determinations of safety, environmental soundness, based
upon detailed technical and scientific data, and without the
inclusion or exclusion of any potential site due to political
expediencies; and
WHEREAS, preliminary studies did not rank the Hanford site
as being within the top three safest possible site of those site
considered, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pasco, Washington
further believing that the selection of Hanford as a site for
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further site characterization studies as a potential national
spent fuel repository has placed an economic cloud on this area
of irrepairable and disastrous proportion,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Pasco,
Washington, acting by and through its City Council, as follows:
Section 1. The City of Pasco, Washington requests that
the President of the United States, based on existing law,
require that the site selection process, including the selection
of sites for further site characterization study as a potential
national spent fuel repository site, be determined and made
solely out of concerns of safety and environmental soundness
based on detailed technical and scientific data, and without
inclusion or exclusion of any site based on political
expediencies.
Section 2. The City of Pasco, Washington opposes the
current selection of Hanford for further site characterization
studies as a potential national spent fuel repository site, since
the selection of Hanford was not made solely upon considerations
of safety and environmental soundness based upon detailed
technical and scientific data, and without concern for political
expediencies.
Section 3. The City of Pasco requests that the
President of the United States require that the site selection
process should consider all areas of the United States with equal
consideration, and that all potential sites in the nation be
fairly explored and that the search for a second repository site
in the eastern United States continue.
Section 4. A copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded
to the Honorable Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of
America, and to this State's Congressional Delegation.
PASSED by the City Council and APPROVED by the Mayor at
the regular meeting of the Pasco City Council, held July 21,
1986.
Evelyn Wells, City Clerk