NY Times:KERRY ATTACKS DEAN FOR BUSH PACT [View All]

It seems there is confusion about dates but here the Times says a deal was struck in 1998 between Bush and Dean.

KERRY ATTACKS DEAN FOR BUSH PACT Senator John Kerry attacked the record of Howard Dean, a former governor of Vermont and fellow candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying he had struck a deal with George W. Bush in 1998, when Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, to ship Vermont's nuclear waste to a poor, mostly Hispanic community. In a campaign swing through Texas, Mr. Kerry criticized the 1998 compact, in which Vermont and Maine agreed to pay $25 million each to ship low-level nuclear waste to Sierra Blanca, Tex. Dr. Dean's campaign countered that the arrangement had been negotiated in the open and later approved by President Bill Clinton. Ultimately the plan was not carried through because Texas environmental officials said it was unsafe. David M. Halbfinger (NYT)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/national/02BRFS8.html