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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (30551)	3/23/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116767

Judge OKs nuke waste shipments By Mark Eddy Denver Post Environment Writer March 23 - A federal judge has cleared the way for shipments of radioactive waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, but it's unclear when the first drums of tainted clothing, tools and dirt will leave Rocky Flats. "This week, the WIPP will begin disposal of radioactive transuranic waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory,'' U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Monday. "It is our intention to ship the first load of waste from Los Alamos on Thursday. ... This is indeed historic - for DOE and the nation.'' U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn on Monday refused to issue an injunction that would have prevented shipments to WIPP, thereby allowing the facility to open. The first shipments involve 36 drums of radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico. While Penn's decision involves only the Los Alamos shipments, federal officials said they hope a favorable ruling also will open the way for shipments from a DOE facility in Idaho and then other facilities, such as Rocky Flats.... denverpost.com

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (30551)	3/23/1999 4:46:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116767

Rocky Mountain News MARCH 23, 12:23 EST NJ Seeks To Recover From Y2K Glitch TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Y2K computer glitch gave New Jersey welfare recipients millions of dollars in food assistance nearly two weeks early. It's the so-called millennium bug's most widespread effect on the public so far, one expert said. The error affecting 194,000 recipients was introduced Sunday during a test to determine whether a state welfare computer was protected from the problem involving how some computers read dates, said Ed Rogan, a spokesman for the state Department of Human Services.... wire.ap.org