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L RESOLUTION NO. 78-20 BY: Council as a Whole A RESOLUTTON EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO THE CONSIDERATION OF NORTHEAST OHIO AS STORAGE FACILTTIES FOR RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR WASTES DUE TO EXTREME POTENTTAL ENVIRONMENTAI, AND ECOLOGICAL HAZARDS. WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of this Council through the Mayfield Village Advisory Board of Environmental Control that Governor James A. Rhodes and members of his administration are engaged with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in studies to consider Northeast Ohio, Lake Erie, abandoned coal mines, or other geological formations in Ohio as storage facilities for radioactive nuclear wastes, and WHEREAS, the uncertainty of the exact properties of nuclear wastes and its long-term impact upon the environment and the ecology indicate the gravest possible detrimental effects upon human life, as well as the environment, are possible, and WHEREAS, there is minimal experience with the disposal of nuclear wastes in the Uni:ted States although experience indi- cates that atomic waste storage has been banned in the State of Minnesota, prohibited from storage in Louisiana salt domes, placed under legislative control in the State of Vermont and are subject to a one-year moratorium on storage in New Mexico, and WHEREAS, such experience indicates that it would be extremely dangerous and fool-hearty to store nuclear wastes in the Nor•theast reqion of Ohio which constitutes the most heavily populated area of the State as well as one of the more highly populated sections of the United States, and WHEREAS, State Senator John Timothy McCormack has intro- duced a Resolution in the 112th General Assembly of Ohio calling upon Governor Rhodes and members of his administration to immediately cease all consideration of storage facilities for radioactive nuclear wastes in Oh3o, and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the Village of Mayfield Vi:llage desire to support such Resolution and, further, des3re to achieve the result of prohibiting nuclear waste storage in Ohio, now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF MAXFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: Section 1. The Mayor and Council of the Village.of.May- field Village, hereby register their support of Senate Joint Resolu- tion No. 32 introduced by Mr. McCormack in the 112th General Assembly and further call upon Governor James A. Rhodes, the Ohio Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cease all studies of Ohio locations for nuclear waste storage and to cease all negotia- tions which would lead to the establishment of nuclear waste storage