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Show Downwinder study ends SALTLAKECITY(AP) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has defended its deeision to end funding for a study of possible conned ions between radioactive fallout and thyroid abnormal it ies among residents downwind of the Nevada Test Site. Spokeswoman Kathy Harbin says the researchers could finish the project by Aug. 31. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavilt, former governor of Utah and himself a native of southwestern Utah, said he was comfortable with the decision to end the funding. 'Hie CDC is part of Leavitl's department. Researchers who have been working on the study for years said they arc only about onc-lhird finished with interviews and health examinations and cannot possibly complete the project in the remaining time. At issue is the long-term effect of radioactive fallout from the aboveground tests conducted in Nevada in the 1950s and early THE LIFT HOUSE THE BIGGEST LITTLE SKI SHOP I N THE WEST 1960s. Past studies have produced a year. The following year, it was conflicting conclusions as to continued for an additional year, whether the fallout caused she said. increased cancer in residents livFrom the start. VY)V has -coning downing in parts of Nevada. tinually advised" the university Utah and Arizona. The Radiation about the study's limeframe and Exposure Compensation Act of expectations about its comple1990 provides for compassionate tion, she said. payments it) downwinders who "There was a required review contracted certain cancers and by a board ol scientific experts other serious diseases.. right before the funding was University of Utah professor awarded in September (2004)." Joseph L. Lyon has been studying she said. "So in August 2004. Dr. the fallout effects since the late Lyon was advised that this board 1970s and heads the current of scientific experts recommended not funding the project beyond study. In 1993. a study by Lyon con- the 2004 funding period." Lyon said bureaucratic barricluded fallout increased the incidence of thyroid tumors 3.4 times ers and (\^>V requirements over the expected rale among slowed the study. schoolchildren who were exposed "We've got three more years to the highest doses. The latest of hard work to complete the study was an attempt to re-exam- slutly." Lyon told The Spectrum ine the residents. Some scientists of St. George in southwestern suspect health effects may devel- Utah. Without the funding, "We op slowly for thyroid disease and have to shut down," he said. that there may be lifelong risk. The study was designed t o However. Harbin told the check 4.000 people, many of Deseret Morning News the study whom had to be tracked down, started as a five-year project in and that look lime. So far, only 1998. In 2003, it was extended for 1.300 have been studied. Envirocare seeks to expand SALT LAKE CITY (AP) miles northwest of Salt Lake City. Envirocare of Utah is seeking a per"'Ilicy are treating the rail expanmit to increase the size of its low- sion as a Trojan horse to gel the level radioactive waste dump opera- approval for waste disposal. Once tions in Tooele County. they gel legislative approval, they 'Hie company is requesting a could begin taking waste." said change in its state permit in order to Jason (iroenewold. director of the build new waste handling facilities, a environmental advocacy group rail line, an administration building Healthy Environment Alliance Utah. and a disposal cell. The expansion would add 3> to Envirocare spokesman Mark Walker on Wednesday said the com- 50 years of disposal operations to pany needs to upgrade the aging rail the landfill, he said. line and "rollover." where the waste Walker agreed that the waste is emptied from train cars. rFhe com- operation could expand into thepany also needs a new crusher for acreage Envirocare s new owners waste compaction and a shredder. purchased from former Envirocare Critics quickly seized on the President Charles Judd. expansion plans, sending out e-mails "Hut right now that's not what it calling the permit-change request an would be used for." Walker said. attempt to "supersize" the facility NO 'Hie original acreage allows the facility to operate another 17 to 20 years without expanding onto the new properly, lie said. Envirocare ('hid' Executive Steve Creamer and two investment firms bought the 543-acre waste facility from Khosrow Semnani in December. 'Hie sale closed Jan 31. At thai time. Envirocarc's new owners announced they would give up their regulatory permit to accept "hotter" H and C waste. A law banning the waste has since gone into effect. Under stale law. the expansion proposal must receive approval from Tooele County, the Legislature and the governor. Some legislators are pushing to have the matter considered at the April 20 special session. Army refuses reason for Dugway SALT LAKE CTIY (AP) The Army has refused to say why it wants to expand Dugway Proving Ground. and now it has rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on the proposal. 'Hie FOIA request was filed in October by the Deseret Morning News. In rejecting the request. Brig. Gen. James R. Mylessaki,"We must withhold the documents in their entirely under Exemption 5 of the FOIA. AJI of the documents found responsive to your request are predccisional and deliberative in nature." 'Hiat exemption allows, but does not require, government agencies to withhold documents thai debate proposals. The News has appealed the denial to the secretary of the Army, the newspaper reported Thursday. A-7 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 2-5, 2005 It argued that release of the information would be in the public interest and would reduce confusion and speculation about why the military is considering expansion of the base. 'Ilic Army has not said how big an expansion it is considering nor exactly where. In I9&N, the Army proposed expanding it to obtain WS square miles south of the base after studies showed it was contaminated by old tests of chemical weapons. 'Hie U.S. Bureau of Land Management opposed I he expansion and said that the Army should clean up any old munitions outside the proving ground. Siblings Louise. Douglas and Allan Cannon jointly own land in the area and hold numerous mining claims there. 'Iliey have suggested the military may be trying to forcibly obtain their lands, where conuniina- lion occurred but the military' has refused to clean. Court diK-uments from Cannon lawsuits said that the Army attacked the Cannon's old family mines with 3.000 rounds of chemical arms for tests at the end of World War II. It also bombed the surface of 1,425 acres oi Cannon family-owned land above the mines with more .than 23 tons of chemical arms, including deadly mustard agent, hydrogen cyanide and Phosgene. 'Ilic Army said it had permission from the Cannons' grandfather for that testing. 'Hie younger Cannons said contracts only recently found requin;..! cleaning of the land. 'llicy contended the failure to uo that has prevented working potentially lucrative gold mines. Courts dismissed their claims saying they were filed too late. 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