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Radioactive Waste: Interior's Continuing Review of the Proposed Transfer of the Ward Valley Waste Site

RCED-97-184 Published: Jul 15, 1997. Publicly Released: Jul 16, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined: (1) what sources of information the Department of the Interior relied on in deciding to prepare a second supplemental environmental impact statement and in selecting issues to address in the supplement; and (2) whether the selected issues had been considered in earlier state or federal proceedings and, if so, whether they are being reconsidered on the basis of significant new information.

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