1.   An agreement with Maine and Vermont would have allowed those states to ship radioactive waste to Texas.

2.   An EPA report in the near future will determine if Idaho nuclear waste can be shipped to New Mexico.

3.   For one thing, he said, the states through which New York plans to ship its waste should have been fully consulted.

4.   High-level nuclear waste is already shipped in the country.

5.   If the governor cannot accept those promises, Abraham wrote, the Energy Department will revoke them on Monday and begin shipping the waste into South Carolina.

6.   New York now sells the paper to local vendors who then ship the waste to recycling plants across the country.

7.   Once the wastes are shipped to the desert dump, the public would be responsible for cleanup costs estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

8.   Some environmentalists favor storing spent nuclear fuel on reactor sites because shipping the waste creates even more hazards, they say.

9.   The company is already shipping radioactive waste to South Carolina and Utah and will continue to use those sites, said company spokeswoman Maureen Brown.

10.   The U.S. Senate on Wednesday enacted a measure allowing Maine and Vermont to ship waste to the site.