Before Barack Obama was elected, he promised to “fundamentally transform” America. Joe Biden’s first term is often referred to as Obama’s third term because an objective look at the Biden
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The newsletter serves as a forum to discuss a range of legal and policy developments of interest to our clients, colleagues, and friends across Indian Country. Please contact our attorneys or public policy professionals with any questions, and please send us your feedback!
By SUSAN GORDON, lARRY KING AND LINDA EVERS
This time next July, we are going to lose a key federal program, and you hardly even hear about it. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) will come to an end on July 11, 2022. We need our elected representatives in Congress to extend and expand that program before it runs out.
Congress first passed RECA in 1990. The idea was to help cover health costs for many of the communities exposed to nuclear radiation through the U.S. nuclear weapons programs. Those programs began in the 1940s, most notably here in New Mexico, with the first nuclear test in 1945. Above-ground nuclear tests would continue until 1962 an,d to support the thousands of new nuclear weapons being built, an expansive uranium mining and processing program began in our state and elsewhere.
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