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Spilyqy Tymoo, Wrm Springs, Oregon November 11, 2004 Dining Sets 15 Off Plus: "Blast from the Past" old fashioned music boxes, turn tables wCD player, Juke boxes. All by Crosley - On Special! .17 r u i Ai PNMo courtMy of Wilun Wwi Seekseequa officially dedicated its fire hall this past month. On hand for the ribbon-cutting were Brenda Scott, Wilson Wewa, Geraldine Jim, Fire Chief Dan Martinez, Chief Operations Office Lauraina Hintsala, Hamilton Greeley, and Councilwoman Carol Wewa. Computer Systems starting at $899 including 17" CRT Monitor Ralph's TV & Furniture 525 S.E. 5th St. Madras, OR 97741 Edward & Donna Hagedom, owners (541) 475-2578 Court: Too soon to rule on sludge Decision overturns tribes' position on Hanford waste Buy - Sell - Trade - Consign YAKIMA (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled last week that it was too early to decide whether the Energy Depart ment should be allowed to leave radioactive sludge in under ground tanks in Washington state instead of shipping it to a central repository. The ruling last Friday over turns a lower-court ruling in the lawsuit brought by environmen tal groups and American Indian tribes. The lawsuit claimed mix ing the sludge and combining it with concrete grout - as the government plans for Idaho, South Carolina and Washington state - could endanger ground water and rivers. The Energy Department maintains that some highly ra dioactive residue in the waste tanks is too expensive to extract. The department has proposed reclassifying it as less dangerous, combining it with grout and leaving it in place. Although the lawsuit cites all three states, only Washington state is affected by the ruling because Congress approved a measure this year allowing the reclassification for South Caro lina and Idaho. Friday's ruling overturns a decision last year by a federal judge in Idaho who barred the Energy Department from re classifying the waste. Washington and several other states filed "friend of the court" briefs to the appellate court, ask ing it to uphold the Idaho judge's decision. The appeals court panel said it was too soon to determine if the Energy Department's plans violated the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Waiting would not be a greater danger "than the one already imposed by our high-level-waste Frankenstein," said the three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals. Elliott Negin, spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council, denied that the ruling was a defeat for the environ mental group. "All it said is that the timing is off," he said. Colleen French, an Energy Department spokeswoman, said the agency was reviewing the ruling and would not comment As much as 100 million gal lons of nuclear waste were stored over the years in 239 tanks in the three states. Some of it has been removed and pro cessed for permanent disposal, but about 85 million gallons re main to be processed. Critics contended that leav ing any waste in those tanks will threaten the Columbia River at south-central Washington's Hanford site, as well as the Snake River aquifer under the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and the groundwater at the Savan nah River Site in South Caro lina. About 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste from World War II and Cold War-era plutonium production is buried in Hanford's 177 aging under ground tanks. An estimated 67 of the tanks have leaked radio active brew into the soil, con taminating the aquifer and threatening the Columbia River. The Energy Department is required to remove at least 99 percent of the waste at Hanford. . Licensed Firearms Dealer 780 SW 4th st. "Xfc,- Madras, Oregon 9774 1 Anything of value: Jewelry, guns, Old West items. Tom fies - Bob Eirairnsoifi) 11 -5411 -475-366 I : -r, .. I iffy I DAVID JOHN 04 DODGE DURANGO PW, PL, AIH.4X4.V8 04 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER III I f III r win mn n,r-i I. l 1 r i w,! m II III III 33324 is ii(i ill in ss lig., $22,499 1 fiflilffl" WWsm.$1 3?88 04 DODGE RAM 3500 1 03 DODGE 1500 1 LEATHER, AUTO, 4X4, DUALLY VERY CLEAN '33350A $35,888jh32992A Wjf 02roNT,i! 195JECHEMKEE t 323i 8A t,988 Lyr&o8 03 TOYOTA MATRIX LOW MILES, NICE 33304B $15,988 02 JEEP LIBERTY 4x4 LEATHER, EXTRA CLEAN 32223A $13,988 00 TOYOTA COROLLA AIR, PW, PL, AND MORE NOW 31129A $7,995 98 CHEVY LUMINA V6, AUTO, LOADED 31023A -res- TZ? 1