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Lawyer Expects Non-Nuclear Test Postponement
A non-nuclear explosion scheduled for June 2 in Nevada could be postponed, a lawyer representing an Indian tribe that opposes the test said Friday (see GSN, April 21). Robert Hager, an attorney for the Western Shoshone tribe and others downwind of the Nevada Test Site, said a Justice Department lawyer told him the test would be delayed three weeks for the revision of safety data and environmental assessments. Hager noted the delay in court papers he filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, the Associated Press reported. However, spokesmen for two federal agencies denied there had been a date change. “We don’t have any postponement at this time,” said David Rigby, a spokesman for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn and federal lawmakers from Nevada and Utah received a revised environmental assessment Friday indicating “that we’re OK to go forward with the experiment, from an environmental perspective,” said Kevin Rohrer, a National Nuclear Security Administration official in Las Vegas. Nevada Environmental Protection Division spokesman Dante Pistone said Friday that his agency would review the document. “We haven’t given them a date certain when we’ll be able to sign off,” he said (Ken Ritter, Associated Press/Las Vegas Sun, May 6).
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