WASTE SITE ACTIVISTS ORGANIZE STUDY U.S. PLAN FOR STATE LOCATION.(Local)

Byline: Associated Press

Environmental activists and a group of citizens met Saturday to plot strategies on a federal plan that would put a low-level radioactive waste site in New York.

About 70 people turned out for the day-long brainstorming session in this Oswego County community near one of 10 sites proposed for the waste site.

"We are not of the NIMBY (not in my back yard) school of thought," said Mary Bartholomew, co-chairman of the Fulton Safe Drinking Water Action Committee, which sponsored the meeting. "We want to work together with other groups statewide to come up with a plan that will be in the best interest of the entire state." …