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Show DAILY D2 HERALD Saturday. April 10, 2004 OTATR&RFKTnN JL KJ JL J SL JL)U AXJ1A DOE unveils plan to Experts say the drought ship nuclear waste via railroad, barge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS The Energy Department has decided to rely on trains to ship radioacy tive waste to a planned Nevada nuclear waste repository. The department plans 3,000 to 3,300 railroad shipments over 24 years from 39 states to Nevada, according to a notice published in the Federal Register that makes the plan officross-countr- cial. , An additional 1,000 shipments would be trucked from sites that can't handle 150-to-n casks, the Energy -Department sain, "The mode decision is rail on a national basis and within Nevada," Allen Benson, Energy Department and Yucca Mountain spokesman, said Friday in Las Vegas. The government has not made public the rail lines, cities or towns that would be affected by the plan to ship nuclear waste to a railhead it would build near Caliente, 150 miles northeast of Las Vegas near the Utah line. The Energy Department identified only general corridors in a 2002 environmental study. Benson said Friday that radioactive waste might be sent by barge to rail depots in places where nuclear plants do not have railroad access. A previous Energy Department study identified 14 states in which nuclear-fille- d barges could ply waterways, including Chesapeake Bay, Lake Michigan and the Hudson, ' Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The Energy Department said it was developing security plans that could include armed federal escorts and rail "security cars." The department also is iormmg an aniHerrorisr will continue THE plan, and said it calculated four cancer deaths to people exposed to radiation during the railroad shipping campaign, according to the published notice. In a separate notice published Thursday, the department committed to environmental studies on a rail corridor across Nevada from Caliente to Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Nevada is considering legal action against the transportation plan, which the Energy Department first made public Monday. p State officials and activists call the Caliente-to- Yucca Mountain route which loops around the vast Nevada Test Site and Nellis Air Force Base bombing range unrealistically dangerous and expensive. The Energy Department has said it expects to be able to build the rail line for about $880 million. The state says it could cost $2 billion. The state also alleges the Energy Department is skirting parts of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires thorough study. The state also is examining an Energy Department backup plan that calls for trucking nuclear waste across Nevada if a railroad line isn't built before the repository opens. On Thursday, Nevada's Legislative Interim Finance Committee released $2 million to continue the legal battle to stop 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste from being stored at Yucca Mountain. The Energy Department plans to submit a license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of the year, and expects to build and open the repository by !0 lOr 319-mi- le anti-dum- APR1 9 8. 10 IZRU1I & ' ' : ' v FREE CARNATION TO THE FIRST 100 LADIES EACH DAY COURTESY OF FLOVERS 11 TIOTS m ! acre-fe- et to water customers. Officials are expecting only about a third of that the least amount for irrigators since the beginning of the project. Either most farms will get no water, or all farms get a fraction of what they typically need. HIM Barrier against contaminants planned near Hill Air Force base Smoke clears, feds to investigate New Mexico refinery explosion Leslie Hoffman : ASSOCIATED PRESS N.M. 3 for S299 r.'JT.V Hospital spokeswoman Cindy Foster said Mike Saunders, an employee and volunteer firefighter and volunteer deputy for the sheriff's department reserves, and employee Vincent Azua were in critical condition Friday. Billy Moore, 50, a county commissioner and safety officer at the refinery, and employee Phillip Brown were in satisfactory condition. McKinley County Manager Tom Trujillo said Moore, Saunders and Azua suffered second-an-d e burns across the front of their upper bodies, arms and faces. Two other employees, who suffered minor injuries as part efforts to contain the fire following the explosions, were treated and released. State police Lt. Jimmy Glascock said the initial explosion occurred in a unit of the refine ery that produces fuel causing a second blast in the same area. Montana trucker Michael third-degre- high-octan- 7f THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : ROY Environmental officials plan to build a barrier to speed cleanup of a mile-lon- g groundwater contamination through the southern-p- art of this city. The effort is intended to remove a contaminant called trichloroethylene, caused by Hill Air Force base. The Roy plume is one of 12 caused by improper disposal of degreas-e- r and jet fuel at Hill. The proposed reactive barrier is a key component of the second phase of a cleanup process that could take up to 30 years to complete. It would include a 650--f g trench holding a sand and iron mixture. TCE found in water passing through the barrier would be broken down into harmless components, said Mark Loucks, an environmental engineer. TCE has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory rats, but hasn't been linked to cancer in humans. It's currently classified as a probable carcinogen. Traces of the chemical have been detected in 25 of 210 tested homes in the plume area. Metcalf was driving nearby- when the explosions occurred. All of a sudden, I heard a loud sound, which rocked the truck," he told Gallup radio station KYVA. When he turned around, "I saw flames and black smoke coming out of the refinery, and the flames were shooting out as high as one of the towers. The flames were a bright orange and yellow. It was the blackest smoke I have ever seen." Gallup Fire Department Chief Louie Chavez said the fire triggered the refinery's massive water guns, which helped quell the flames. The smoke had cleared by Friday but hours after the blasts, a small plume of white smoke wafted from a blackened lattice of pipes and refining equipment as crews cooled the area. There were about 50 employees at the refinery when the explosions occurred, Glascock said. 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Noon to 9 pm i -- HI ALBUQUERQUE, GUiDHTJ , - Federal investigators will help determine the cause of a fiery explosion that triggered another at a gasoline refinery in western New Mexico. Investigators with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board, an independent government agency headquartered in Washington, D.C., were to arrive late Friday afternoon. The FBI also launched a routine investigation, and state officials were monitoring the situation. Thursday's explosions rocked the Giant Industries refinery east of Gallup and seriously injured four workers. The refinery and a nearby travel center were evacuated as black smoke billowed from one side of the refinery. The four employees suffered severe burns and were airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. & ., . IVi1 THE HOME SALT LAKE CITY Utah definitely is in for another year of drought, experts told a group of Utah water users. "It hasnl relented, " said . 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