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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Nearly 80 rail cars loaded with contaminated sand from Kuwait are headed to a desert dump site in southwestern Idaho.
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director Brian Monson says the American Ecology Co. is moving about 6,700 tons of sand to a hazardous waste disposal site in the Owyhee desert 70 miles southeast of Boise.
The sand is from Camp Doha, a U.S. Army Base in Kuwait. The sand absorbed depleted uranium after ammunition caught fire.
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