It s the same ocean that will be contaminated. The Fish and Wildlife Service objects to that choice, too, and so do we. The agency says it intends the storage on Wake to be temporary, but it doesn t say how long that will be or where the waste will go next. So it will sit at Wake until something changes or we forget about it. The hazardous waste belongs to the U.S. Army, which has accumulated it over the years at its bases in Japan.
Japan has no appropriate disposal facilities.
The Army has already shipped it to Vancouver and Seattle, where it was unable to offload it. It s back in Japan. There are appropriate disposal sites on the U.S. Mainland, and it s the Army s job to find a way to transport the materials safely there from Japan. If that requires an act of Congress, so be it. This document contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.