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                 CONFERENCE OF TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS 
                            SESSION III
                        RESOLUTION #5-51579

                 Nuclear Waste Disposal - Hanford

PREAMBLE: The United States Government has chosen as a major waste 
disposal site for nuclear power wastes the Hanford Reserve in 
Eastern Washington located near a number of Indian Tribes. The 
dangers of such a site are well known. 

WHEREAS;    the dangers of the disposal of such waste have 
            prompted a number of states to completely ban any such 
            disposal within their state causing a national problem 
            as to where the disposal from plants throughout the 
            U.S. should be located, and 

WHEREAS;    there have been bills introduced into Congress by the 
            Washington State delegation to authorize the use of 
            Hanford as a permanent national disposal site, and 

WHEREAS;    if such legislation should succeed Indian Tribes whose 
            reservation is located within a close proximity to the 
            Hanford site have additional dangers and problems that 
            will be greatly increased if such legislation should 
            pass, and 

WHEREAS;    the total environment including but not limited to 
            valuable water resources, fish runs, wildlife, 
            agricultural lands and air are gravely menaced by the 
            proposed legislation, and 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the delegates here assembled at 
            the Conference of Tribal Governments this 15th day of 
            May, 1979 do hereby declare their opposition to any 
            and all legislation or other actions which might 
            utilize the Hanford site for further dumping of 
            nuclear wastes of the dangerous substances accumulated 
            elsewhere, and 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this conference urges the 
            Congressional delegation to withdraw the proposed 
            legislation and cease to consider any such others, 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Conference urges all other 
            citizens within the northwest to make themselves heard 
            on this important matter. 

Introduced by Leonard Tonasket, Yakima Nation.
Date: 5-15-79, Adopted: 5-15-79.

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