| | SC to return to SE LLRW Compact?? (another newspaper article) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | Bill seeks S.C. return to waste compact By ANDREW MEADOWS, Staff Writer State Sen. Phil Leventis, D-Sumter, filed a bill Thursday to have South Carolina rejoin the Southeast Compact, a seven-state organization formed to dispose of the region's low-level nuclear waste. |
 | | To kick start rejoining the compact, the bill calls for a committee to negotiate with compact members about South Carolina's re-entry. |
 | | The committee will be comprised of two members appointed by the Speaker of the House, two members appointed by the head of the Senate, two members appointed by the governor and the chief of the Bureau of Radiological Health The bill bans states outside the compact from using Barnwell, Leventis said. |
| www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/9812/msg00421.html (659 words) |