Then I asked the commissioners' support in helping assure that the White Mesa mill be properly licensed if they were to accept the waste. This the two commissioners would not do. The Navajo Utah Commission in their meeting on July 7, asked for public hearings and meetings on the matter. The Navajo officials had not yet been consulted. Once again we find the Indian peoples in southeastern Utah neglected and shunted aside. NRC and other government entities need to remember that on Feb 11, 1994, President Clinton issued Executive Order 12898, which purpose was to focus the attention of federal agencies on the human health and environmental conditions in communities. These agencies are to adopt strategies to minority and address environmental justice concerns within the context of agency operations. I don't know how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines Environmental Justice, but the EPA Office of Environmental Justice defines it this way: low-inco- Ken 6 Jane Sleight's PACK CREEK RANCH A Country Inn 6 Guest Ranch me The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all ' people regardless of race; color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Fair treatment means that no group of people, including racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies." The Navajo and Ute concerns have been partially documented in past matters involving waste material hauled to White Mesa. Health matters are of great concern. Aboriginal land issues are also of great concern. Why are not these same concerns relevant now? The Executive Order explicitly called for the application of equal consideration for Native American programs. This should be done before the transport of any waste to White Mesa. Native Americans living in San Juan County deserve a voice. They have that right, but they have not been given the "fair treatment" called for in the Executive Order. I feel it is the right of every citizen to hear and to be able to study information pertaining to a waste dump that is to be placed in their midst And it is the responsibility of government (federal, state, and county) to see the information is provided. Otherwise we will again invite such disasters as the tailings dumps at PACK CREEK RANCH LODGING PLAN cabins based on double occupancy Trails End: $135 Ranch House: $150 (misiaia four people) West Bunk: $115 Orchard: $135 Farm: $150 Gate: $150 Road: $150 M-- $150 Meadow: $135 Guest: $135 4: Monticello and Moab. At this immediate time, the NRC should review the issuance of this license amendment and prohibit International Uranium Corporation from receiving any of the subject waste material at White Mesa. My good friends, Norman and Shirley Begay, able Native American activists, of White Mesa, are surely missed. They fought hard to keep dangerous nuclear waste from piling up in their homeland at White ,Mesa in seeking environmental justice. They were tragically killed in Shiprock, New Mexico not long ago when someone rammed their car. And if there are no public hearings or meetings and a satisfactory solution, in the memory of Norman and Shirley Begay, I am for one going to be out on that road leading to the White Mesa mill, as Norman and Shirley and their loyal followers would have done, as they have done before; to protest that next cargo of radioactive $75 single occupancy 6 $25 child Member of the La Sal Mountain Lodging Association j r , . . . i , Visit our web ste:pcrpackcreekranch.com or call for a brochure at 435.259-550- 5 PACK CREEK RANCH PO Box Details on page three additional adult (children under one year are free) INCLUDES A FULL BREAKFAST waste. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ZEPHYR $50 1270 Moab. UT 84532 WE ARE LONGER SERVING DINNER. BUT WE ARE HOSTING WEDDINGS, WORKSHOPS 6 CONFERENCES WITH FULL FOOD SERVICE AVAILABLE. BOOK CLIFFS HOMESTEADS Thompson Springs, Utah bozos: Call Janie Tift at Paradise Realty FAX: 259-26- (431)259-265- 0 RK 'w I " 99