Bill Sent Back to Sub-Committee

(From the Danville Register Bee website 01/28/2008)

Uranium bill gets more study

On the Danville Register and Bee Web site
January 28, 2008
Lynchburg News & Advance

RICHMOND - A bill that proposes a study of uranium mining in Virginia has been overhauled by its sponsor, Senator Frank Wagner of Virginia Beach.
Wagner offered the revised bill this morning to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The panel named a subcommittee to review the changes, which are focused on making sure the study is impartial and that it would start with an analysis of mining safety by an outside group such as the National Academy of Sciences.
The committee spent more than an hour debating the bill and listening to witnesses who said mining should be studied because of its economic benefits, or who said mining would release radiation into drinking water, cause cancer, and pollute the Southside Virginia environment forever.