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Show A4 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Tuesday, December1, 1998 Justices Won’t Force $2.3 Million Awarded In Guard’s Killing of San Quentin Inmate U.S. to Open N-Dump ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Neither will they shield feds from utilities’ lawsuits THE BALTIMORE SUN SAN FRANCISCO — In a blow againststate prison policy on gun use, a federal court jury awarded to meet any deadline or to take more than $2.3 million in dam- any specific action to prepare a WASHINGTON — The federal storage site. Earlier, the appeals governmenthas missedits dead line for setting up a permanent ages Monday — most of it against California’s former prison system director — for the fatal shooting of an inmate by a San Quentin guard. court had ruledthat nuclear utili- ties were free to begin making de- storage site for 30,000 tons of radioactive nuclear fuel, but the Su- mands, in a federal claims court, for damagesfromthe federal gov- preme Court on Monday refused to forceit to create a site now. The 10-member jury found ernment for its delays. unanimously that convicted mur- fromlawsuits from utilities seek- utilities’ extra costs in keeping spentfuels in their own storage their volatile wastepiles for up to Mountainsite to be ready. The industry estimates that those costs derer Mark Adams, killed while fighting with another prisonerin March 1994, was the victim not uuly of a bullet gone astray but also of an unconstitutional state policy on lethal force in prison. Lawyers for Adams’ estate said ‘Those damages would cover the At the same time, the court de- clined to protect the government ing billionsof dollars in damages because they must now hang on to while a dozen moreyears, at heavy cost Yucca ruling that the government could not assert that its delays in unavoidable, Ultimately, the government is Massachusetts are entitled set later. can be Theindustrycontendsthat gov- storedfor at least 10,000years, to keep it isolated from the human ernment delays will require utili- court without explanation denied age sites at 72 locations around the country, with many of the Jurors awarded $191,000 sites posing potential safety and review of separate appeals by the government and by35statesthat askedthe justices to monitortheir environmental hazards. high-stakes conflict over nuclear waste, The twoactions left the dis- that the utilities are exaggerating, 50-fold, their likely added cost: But the government contends maintaining the waste. It calcu- pute, dating back at least five years, with nocertain outcome \ federal appeals court ruled two years ago that the govern- lates that the added costs will be no more than $1 billion. The 35 states and their public utility commissions took the case ment had no choice but to meet Congress’ 1998 deadline for ac- to the Supreme Court, seeking a court order to force the govern- ceptingthe waste, at least for tem- porary storage, while the Yucca Mountain facilities were being ment to move faster to prepare the Nevada site. The government also appealed, trying to regain the prepared But ina ruling last summer, af- right to claimthatits delays were ter the deadline was missed, the unavoidable. The court rebuffed both bysimplyrefusing to hear appeals court said it had no au thority to compel the government the appeals. A pair of macaques rummage through an assortment of food Sunday at the 10th annual “Monkey Feast” in Lopburi, Thailand. The monkeysaresaid to bring goodluck to the town. 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