Washington Department of Health – MCC https://midwestcompact.org The Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Kristen Schwab Begins Role as Northwest Compact’s New Executive Director https://midwestcompact.org/2017/01/12/kristen-schwab-begins-role-as-northwest-compacts-new-executive-director/ Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:42:17 +0000 https://midwestcompact.org/?p=379 On December 16, 2016, Kristen Schwab started her new role as the Executive Director of the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management.  Schwab succeeds Mike Garner, who retired at the end of June 2016.  She will serve as the designated Director for the Northwest Compact to the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum, Inc. (LLW Forum).

Staff work on the Northwest Compact is being transitioned from the Washington Department of Ecology to the Washington Department of Health.  State officials will be proposing the required legislation in January 2017.

The Northwest Compact was created in 1981 and consists of the member states of Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.  The U.S. Congress ratified the Northwest Compact in 1985.  The eighth state, Wyoming, joined the Compact in March of 1992.

For additional information, please contact Kristen Schwab at (360) 236-3232 or at Kristen.schwab@doh.wa.gov or go to www.ecy.wa.gov/nwic/index.asp.

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