From Deseret News archives:
Utah senators not aboard N-bill
Duo decline to co-sponsor compensation expansion
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he will lend his support to actions justified by science. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, said he will work to support Utah's downwinders and expressed concern for funding the compensation program if it were expanded. He did not refer to downwinders in other states.
Federal studies have shown fallout was deposited throughout most of the United States, not only the counties in Utah, Nevada and Arizona currently covered by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
The Utah counties are Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sevier, Washington and Wayne. Also allowed compensation for fallout exposure are residents of five full counties and part of another in Nevada, and five counties in Arizona plus the section of that state north of the Grand Canyon.
However, other parts of America also were subjected to dangerous levels of fallout, according to federal studies.
"This week I'll be introducing reintroducing again my RECA bill," Crapo said Tuesday during a radio press conference. "This is the bill that deals with the issue of radiation damage caused to people in Idaho as a result of the (open-air nuclear) testing," he added.
What's new about Crapo's bill is that now it includes Montana, as well as all of Idaho, as places where people might be compensated if they were exposed to high levels of fallout and contracted certain types of cancer.
Crapo said the bill will be introduced today by himself and three other senators Sen. Larry E. Craig, R-Idaho; Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.; and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.
A report by the National Academies of Sciences found that among the 25 counties in the United States with the highest doses of fallout radiation, "20 are in Idaho and Montana," he said.
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