Bush approves Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area

WASHINGTON - President Bush signed legislation into law Friday creating a wilderness area in Utah's west desert, dealing a blow to plans to store high-level nuclear waste in the state.
The language, included in a broad defense policy bill, would establish a 100,000-acre Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area near the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation, complicating plans by a group of electric utilities known as Private Fuel Storage to store nuclear waste on the reservation.
"This has been years in the making, and it's nice to see it finally become law," said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, who introduced the Cedar Mountain bill. "We protected the test and training range, a major military asset, we created wilderness the right way and we have significantly impeded the transportation of high-level nuclear waste to the Goshute Reservation."

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http://sltrib.com/utah/ci_3379573

environment--there has to be something in it for his buddies somewhere.

we have significantly impeded the transportation of high-level nuclear waste...

Thereby ensuring reliance on oil for a few more years.

My guess, anyway...

Even shrub must help out his local party appratchniks.