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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Hanford to become tourist destination Federal judge rejects some wolf kills in Washington SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reser- vation, home of the world’s ¿UVW IXOOVL]HG QXFOHDU reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles east of Seattle in south-central Washington. They won’t be allowed anywhere near the nation’s largest collection of toxic radioactive waste. At Hanford, the main attractions will be B Reactor ²WKHZRUOG¶V¿UVWIXOOVL]HG reactor — along with the ghost towns of Hanford and White Bluffs, which were evacuated by the govern- ment to make room for the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project is the name for the U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II. By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal judge has rejected plans by a federal agency to assist in the killing of problem wolves in Wash- ington state. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Bryan of Tacoma, Washington, issued a summary judgment last Thursday DJDLQVW WKH ORZSUR¿OH agency, known as Wildlife Services. Bryan said the agency should have prepared a more in-depth environ- mental analysis of its agreement with the state of Washington to help kill problem wolves. Bryan ruled in favor of conservation groups that sued the agency, concluding that an envi- ronmental assessment prepared by the agency ZDVÀDZHG Wolves were hunted to extinction in Washington at the turn of the last century. But they started migrating from neighboring areas in the early 2000s and there are an estimated 16 wolf packs containing 68 wolves in the state, all in eastern Washington. Wildlife Services failed to create a full environ- mental impact statement about the proposal to UHGXFHZROIFRQÀLFWVLQWKH state, Bryan ruled. Wildlife Services is a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that is responsible for controlling the number RI ZROYHV JUL]]O\ EHDUV coyotes and other wild DQLPDOV 2I¿FLDOV DW WKH agency didn’t have a response on the ruling. Environmental groups cheered the ruling. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File In this 2008 ile photo, the control panel for Hanford nuclear reservation’s famous B Reactor is shown in Richland, Wash. The B Reactor, the world’s irst full-sized reactor, will be part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, the nation’s newest national park. Oregon ‘motor voter’ system set to launch will also use Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division data to register people who obtained or renewed their driver’s licenses, permits or LGHQWL¿FDWLRQ FDUGV RYHU WKH last two years, agency spokes- woman Molly Woon wrote in an email. This provision could add as many as 275,000 voters to the rolls, Atkins said. However, the state will not implement that portion of the law until after the May primary. It’s less clear how many people will opt out of voter registration. The DMV will only send data to the Elections Division for people who have demon- strated, through documents shared with the DMV, that they are eligible to vote. This means Oregon residents who DUH86&LWL]HQVDQGDWOHDVW 17 years old. The Elections Division will send mailers to SHRSOH LGHQWL¿HG DV HOLJLEOH giving them 21 days to opt out of registration or to register with a political party. If people do nothing, the state will UHJLVWHU WKHP DV XQDI¿OLDWHG voters. 2QFHDFLWL]HQRSWVRXWRI automatic voter registration, the Elections Division will By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon is on track to launch its automatic voter registration system in January, Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins said Monday. Under the new law, people who are eligible to vote will be registered after they obtain or renew their driver’s licenses, SHUPLWVRULGHQWL¿FDWLRQFDUGV 2UHJRQLVWKH¿UVWVWDWHWRHQDFW an automatic voter registration law, and the legislation was a top priority for Gov. Kate Brown dating back to when she was secretary of state. Atkins said during a SUHVV EULH¿QJ 0RQGD\ WKDW people outside of Oregon are watching to see how the new system unfolds. “We’ll probably see the nation paying attention, in addition to Oregonians paying attention,” Atkins said. “We’ve been very pleased with the work that’s been done so far and our ability to run end to end tests here in December.” 6WDWH RI¿FLDOV H[SHFW WKH new system will add approx- imately 10,000 voters to the rolls each month starting in January. The secretary of state registered to vote. Instead, the Elections Division will send the updated addresses to county clerks so they can update the information of existing registered voters. Shamus Hannan, an appli- cation development manager in the Secretary of State’s RI¿FH ZKR KDV RYHUVHHQ WKH project, said the state did not create it from scratch. Instead, the automatic registration program built upon Oregon’s existing system of data sharing between the DMV and the Elections Division which the state uses for func- tions including online voter registration. The program is expected to cost approxi- mately $753,000 during the current two-year budget, according to the Legislative )LVFDO2I¿FH It’s “a variation on a theme, rather than something completely new for us,” Hannan said. “Currently, ZH DUH LQ ¿QDO WHVWLQJ RI WKH application with our partners from all the other agencies, including the counties.” ——— The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. not contact the person in the future when he or she renews a drivers license or updates an address at the DMV. The other voter registration options will still be available, including registering to vote online and at the DMV. “How many people will say ‘no thank you’ is a little bit of an unknown,” Atkins said. People exempt from the automatic registration process include certain law enforcement and other individuals who have signed up through the state to keep WKHLU DGGUHVVHV FRQ¿GHQWLDO for personal safety reasons, according to the state’s new voter registration manual. The law goes into effect Jan. 1, when the DMV will be closed for the holiday. As DUHVXOWWKH¿UVWSHRSOHWREH affected by the law will those who obtain driver’s licenses or update their addresses Jan. 4. These people will begin to receive mailers from the state sometime after Jan. 5, when state elections workers will begin to send out the materials. The new law also affects people who update their addresses through the DMV, although they will not be Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 Didn’t receive your paper?&DOO EHIRUHQRRQ7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\ RUEHIRUHDP6DWXUGD\ for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a fl urry in the north, near the Idaho border and in the mountains. Cascades: Cloudy today with snow becom- ing steadier, accumulating 2-4 inches. Northern California: A little rain today; snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the interior mountains. Today Wednesday WSW 6-12 WSW 6-12 WSW 7-14 SW 10-20 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 1 1 “It is long past time that we base wildlife management decisions on the best available science, not on antiquated, anti- wolf rhetoric and myth,” said Bethany Cotton of WildEarth Guardians. Environmental groups contend the environmental assessment failed to address the full ecological impacts of killing wolves in Washington, including impacts on wolves in neighboring states and on other animals, such as JUL]]O\ EHDUV DQG &DQDGD lynx. Wildlife Services has been involved in the killing of wolves in Washington in the past. In August 2014, Wild- life Services snipers shot from a helicopter and killed the Huckleberry wolf pack’s alpha female. The death of that pack’s breeding female threat- ened the future of the entire pack, environmental groups contended. Wildlife Services also advised the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in the 2012 destruction of the Wedge wolf pack in Eastern Washington. In that case, the state agency killed seven wolves after they preyed on livestock. At the federal level, the state is split into two separate wolf populations. In the eastern third of the state, wolves are considered part of the large Northern Rocky Mountain population, which was removed from the endangered list in 2011. 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