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2A SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 2006 News www.wausaudailyherald.com Dump: Splits tribe LEVEL HIGH miiCLEAR mmimM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A sign riddled by shotgun blasts stands along the highway leading to the Goshute Indian Tribe reservation in Skull Valley, Utah. mm local BIA superintendent, David Allison, approved the lease only three days after receiving the final document. Allison, now retired, defends his decision and says there were months of discussions as the lease was being developed. "Unquestionably it's to the benefit of the tribe," he said in a telephone interview. He acknowledged the issue is "a very political hot potato" and added, "I've even been threatened ovec this thing." Anger over the waste dump has spilled over to a bitter dispute over tribal leadership.

Bear's Creskes and Mall for 13 i COREY SCHJOTH WAUSAU DAILY HERALD Murugesapillai Maheswaran, Ph.D., works on math problems in his office at University of Wisconsin Marathon County as he studies hot disks around stars. He hopes to publish his research later this summer. Research: Summer Dump opponents do have one significant victory. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, got Congress to create a wilderness near the Goshute reservation with a finger of protected land crossing and essentially blocking a proposed right of way for a rail spur to bring the waste to the dump.

Parkyn says he will just bring the waste the last 26 miles by truck. Once, more than 20,000 Goshutes roamed Utah and Nevada. Now there are only about 500, including the 118 belonging to the Skull Valley Band, according to Bear. Fewer than two dozen, including children, still live in the cluster of homes and trailers a few hundreds yards off the single highway that cuts through the reservation. Most of the households are below the national poverty level.

At the tribe's only commercial building, the "Pony Express Store" and gas station, the sign is missing several letters. The clerk talks on the phone with little suggestion any customers will be arriving soon. Some of the economic benefits from the proposed dump already are visible. Amid the old, dilapidated houses are a half-dozen hew modular homes some still waiting to be put on foundations thanks to money from the utilities. Bear lives in one; a second belongs to his brother; a third belongs to the vice chair of the tribe's executive council, also a strong supporter of the waste dump.

Two of Bear's neighbors and sharpest critics Margene Bullcreek and Sammie Blackbear have not been offered new homes, says a lawyer representing Bullcreek. Blackbear lives in a small trailer just across the road from the new homes. "It's entirely environmental racism," says Bullcreek, a 59-year-old grandmother. "You have large corporations wanting to put the nuclear waste that nobody wants in their back yards on our land." Bullcreek and other critics of the project contend that tribal members never formally approved the dump and that the majority oppose it. But Bear maintains that the tribe approved the waste project in 1996, before the BIA approved it in March 1997 in a decision that itself has been questioned by dump opponents.

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The deal is yet to be consummated amid lawsuits, regulatory hurdles and bitter opposition. It's close, though. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license for the dump in February. The agency rejected arguments that the dump's location is unsafe because hundreds of F-16 jet fighters fly over the reservation on the way to bombing runs over nearby government land. The chance of a crash that could result in the release of radiation is one in a million, an adequate risk, the NRC said.

Private Fuel Storage LLC of Wisconsin, the consortium that would build and run the dump, has begun looking for nuclear power plant owners to sign up for waste shipments. "We have to store this stuff somewhere," says the group's chairman, John Parkyn. The utilities "were promised this material would be collected and removed to a central location, and now we have one." If Bear and Parkyn get their way, the project will mark a watershed in addressing the thorniest problem facing the nuclear industry: where to put nearly 60,000 tons of highly radioactive reactor waste now stored at power plants in 31 states, and the additional 2,000 tons being generated each year. The government promised to take the waste beginning in 1998. But a planned federal site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is years behind schedule.

Some people say it may never be built. The PFS consortium has spent more than $20 million so far, including licensing costs and payments to the Skull Valley tribe under its 1997 lease. Not a single utility has committed to send waste to Utah, and four of the companies that helped finance the project have said they will not commit any more money as long as Yucca Mountain moves forward. If Yucca Mountain encounters more hurdles and delays, utilities will turn to Skull Valley, Parkyn predicted in an interview. The consortium has spent more than $20 million.

Neither Bear nor the utilities will say how much of that the tribe has received or will get over the next 40 years if the deal goes through. Speculation is that the total could be as much as $100 million for the tribe. Still, it's hard to find people in Utah who favor the dump. "You're batting in the 85 percent range of people who don't want this project to go forward. As conservative as the state is, you don't even see those kind of percentages in things like gay marriage," says Jason Groenewold, director of the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah, which opposes the project.

The state has tried all manner of maneuvers to stop the project, with little success so far. The Legislature imposed steep taxes on anyone doing business with the consortium and banned local governments from providing electricity and other services. The laws were declared unconstitutional by a federal court. Glen Free Market Analysis V.J Leasing. Buying ,1,1 orVllins Commtivnl Krai bstate Build to Suit tautrt 33 years Experience CilPfl Witter From Page 1A Most of the research will be published in academic journals or texts.

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The new trend follows years of steady growth from 15 percent to 25 percent that had already generated rules for a limited hunt of bulls amid predictions the herd would swell to 500 of the majestic animals by 2007 or 2008. "Things are not on track for that to happen," Stowell said. "We are observing higher levels of mortality in the herd." The verdict is still out on whether the reintroduction of the elk in the Clam Lake area can succeed at levels once envisioned, he said. Because of the new challenges, efforts have started to bring in more elk. "I think some folks prematurely said it was a success.

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"All they are doing is bringing in additional feasts for the wolves," the Rusk County cattleman said. "There is no predator that will decimate that herd like wolves." The DNR is now a victim of too many wolves, just like some farmers who have lost livestock and pets, Koens said. "Now it is backfiring in their own back yard, in their own project. I am not surprised." In 1995, 25 elk from Michigan were released in Chequamegon National Forest near Clam Lake to determine if the animals bigger than deer could become established again without damaging private land or causing problems for other wildlife. Wisconsin's last native elk was shot in 1866, researchers said.

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