SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – Governor Gary Herbert refuses to take stand on bill to ban foreign waste in Utah.

Energy Solutions wants to bring about 20,000 tons of low level radioactive energy waste from Italy to be disposed in this State.

Gov. Herbert does not want foreign waste in Utah, but he will not write a letter to support the bill either says Angie Welling, Governor’s spokeswoman.

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