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Local advocates press council to recognize National Day of Remembrance for downwinders; federal reauthorization stalled
Summary
A local advocate briefed council on the National Day of Remembrance for downwinders and the stalled federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act reauthorization (S.3853); Elise Whitman read a letter from Congressman Eli Crane supporting reauthorization and related cleanup programs.
Sherry Hanna, a local advocate for nuclear downwinders, asked the Prescott City Council to recognize Jan. 27 as the National Day of Remembrance for American Downwinders and briefed the council on federal efforts to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
Hanna showed a short video summarizing the history of above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the geographic reach of fallout, and the…
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