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May. 07, 2008
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Lawyer reduces role in Yucca Mountain fight

By STEVE TETREAULT
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
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Joe Egan
Lawyer's firm announces new titles for partners in wake of his stomach cancer battle

WASHINGTON -- Nevada's lead lawyer in the fight against the Yucca Mountain repository is reducing his role as he battles stomach cancer, his firm announced.

Attorney Joe Egan gradually has taken a less public role in the two years since he was diagnosed with the disease.

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    • Egan, Fitzpatrick & Malsch PLLC announced this week it has designated new titles for the partners in the Nevada nuclear waste case with Egan, 53, who now is serving only as an adviser.

    The state of Nevada pays the firm roughly $4 million a year to pay for technical experts and carry out legal strategy with the attorney general against the Department of Energy program to develop a nuclear waste storage site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

    Martin Malsch, a former acting general counsel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, last week became lead licensing counsel for hearings that the NRC will conduct on the repository construction application, according to the firm.

    Charles Fitzpatrick, the firm's managing director, became lead litigation counsel.

    The firm, which has offices in Washington and in San Antonio, announced it has been adding staff in preparation for the upcoming NRC licensing process. A new senior attorney will be announced soon, Fitzpatrick said.

    The state of Nevada, which provides more than half of the firm's business since its hiring in 2001, has been consulted on the changes, said Bob Loux, executive director of the state Agency for Nuclear Projects. "Everything is full speed ahead," Loux said.

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    Amazed- wrote on May 07, 2008 06:39 PM: Nevada is spending how much!? With a $ 1,000,000,000.00 deficit, Nevada is spending how much?!

    As a Nevada taxpayer, this is appalling.

    Maybe if Yucca is approved, the Feds will send some much needed dollars and high skill jobs our way.

    Our ploiticians are bozos and an embarassment


    Scared Nelley wrote on May 07, 2008 04:09 PM: 4 million dollars anually is well worth spending. If the project is stopped it will save hudreds of thousands lives. It will save groundwater within 500 miles of the site from becoming un-drinkable and the dark mushroom clouds causing the sky to fall will be avoided. I'm sooo scared.


    Ron wrote on May 07, 2008 03:49 PM: Residents of Nevada, did you know that we are spending 4 million per year to for a law firm to try to come up with anything that they (Nevada) can come up with (even if it is fear mongering)to try to stop something that would benifit this Country especially thr residents of Nevada.


    larry wrote on May 07, 2008 01:20 PM: Typical - Lawyers make out like bandits, american taxpayers - screwed


    fred wrote on May 07, 2008 01:16 PM: Spending 4 million a year to fight yucca!! Fot that kind of money anyone could find or makeup flaws or use fear mongering techniques. Pure Genius Nevada!!!