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Resolution on Yucca Mt. goes through subcommittee

WAP2002042359 - WASHINGTON, April 23 (UPI) -- Rep. Joe Barton, R-TX, listens to Rep. Rick Boucher, D-VA, during a session of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on energy and air quality on April 23, 2002, in Washington. The committee was meeting to mark up a resolution regarding a permanent nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada..mk/Michael Kleinfeld UPI

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