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House panel delays vote to ban foreign radioactive waste
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee postponed its planned meeting Thursday to vote on legislation that would ban the importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste, including a potential shipment of 1,600 tons to Utah.

Committee officials did not give a reason for delaying the meeting.

An Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted to advance the bill, sponsored by Reps. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., Jim Matheson, D-Utah and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, earlier this week.

No new meeting time was set.

The measure would essentially bar any company from bringing in low-level radioactive waste into the United States for processing or storage.

Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions is seeking a license to import 20,000 tons of Italian low-level waste for processing in Tennessee; about 1,600 tons of post-processed waste would be disposed of in the company's Tooele County site.

tburr@sltrib.com

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