Yes, 12:30 Eastern time.

Thus, first thing Wed. Morning, May 8th let your fingers do the walking, because it's your last chance to urge your US Representative to do the right thing and oppose Yucca Mountain & Mobile Chernobyl!

The 20 year long process that began with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is coming to a head. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to make its ultimate vote on the Yucca Mountain dump proposal on Wed., May 8th. Debate is supposed to begin at 12:30 p.m. The debate will be limited to two hours. Two hours of debate? But the waste will remain deadly for hundreds of thousands of years! After the two hours of debate, then the vote will take place.

CALL YOUR US REPRESENTATIVE ONE LAST TIME BEFORE THE VOTE. URGE THEM TO OPPOSE THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN DUMP AND THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HIGH-LEVEL ATOMIC WASTE TRUCKS, TRAINS, AND BARGES IT WOULD LAUNCH THROUGH 45 STATES.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be transferred to your Representative's office.

Or, go to Public Citizen's website at

action.citizen.org/pc/dbq/officials/

to find out who your Representative is, how to contact his/her office directly, and how to send an e-mail to them about this issue.

The official name for this move to override Nevada's veto of Bush's thumbs up to the dump is House Joint Resolution 87 (HJR 87), a resolution of repository siting approval. Please urge your Representative to vote "no"!

If your Rep's office throws that radioactive curve ball and asks "What is YOUR alternative to the Yucca plan?", present Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Nuclear Waste Transportation Protection Amendments Act (H.R. 4605) as a positive alternative to the bad Yucca Mountain/Mobile Chernobyl plan. For example, HR 4605 would require full-scale physical safety testing to destruction on the transportation containers (not currently required), and would strengthen the security force used to safeguard casks against terrorist attack (current regulations, still on the books after Sept. 11th, are woefully inadequate).

The US Senate will likely vote on the dump in the next month or two. Once we've caught our breath from the Yucca steamroller that has screamed through the US House, we need to get busy pressuring our Senators to oppose Yucca and Mobile Chernobyl! Get some rest, then get busy!!!

For more information visit www.citizen.org/cmep , www.nirs.org , or www.atomicroadshow.org .

Sign our online petition opposing Yucca Mountain at www.yuccapetition.org , and send it out far and wide to all your email contacts. We want 500,000 signatures in five weeks -- help us make that goal!

Thanks to Lisa Gue at Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program for providing the backbone of this action alert.

---Kevin Kamps, NIRS, 202.328.0002