632_ DEBATE Willi, P. Clements and Mark White September 24, 1982 Page 13 This is another gross misrepresentation by Mr. White. ALAN: Pat Casey with our next question. PANEL: Governor Clements, first of all Dr. Milton Holloway, the director of TENRAC set out to monitor the Department of Energy by the state of Texas, said that he's not sure if ah, high level nuclear waste storage in Texas, he said he didn't know whether it is safe or whether it is not safe are to say for sure. But one thing is for sure, there some people in Swisher County in the Texas Panhandle that are scared. In the past there has been drilling of nuclear wastes test sites there and they say there is some drilling going on now. There are some people very scared there and they want to know committment if they have your that you will enforce the authority that you said in Austin recently that you had to keep the Department of Energy out of Texas and prevent the storage of high level nuclear waste in the Texas Panhandle. 'WPC: Let me, let me clarify this situation a little bit. I am very familiar with the testing procedures that are going on under the of the . Department of Energy in Washington. I have been to Washington and have discussed this with Sec. Edwards on several occasions. We have had technical teams in Washington. I've discussed it with the leadership in both the Senate and that the House irst of all let me say that there are five states are being tested as we are being tested. I'm not sure that there's anyway, particularly with an incompetent Attorney General that I can keep the Department of Energy out of Texas. But this testing that we're talking about will go on until 1989. There will not be any kind of decision made until 1989. At that point then as to they will decide among these five states, which state is the more apprepoe. Or the which two states are the most apprepoe. They will then make further 1 testing an metime in the middle 90's they will make a final and ultimate decision. n the Congress today, there is a bill going through both the House and the Senate that calls for the Governor to have a veto on any kind of a site selection. And then if it is passed by both houses as the bill is now constituted where both houses determine that they will override_ that Governor's veto of the situation, then they'll come in anyway. So this bill is before the Congress. And the best I can do as your Governor, is say that I am fighting hard to maintain the double veto, where both the senate and the house would have to override my saying, no, we do not want this in Texas. ALAN: Attorney General White.