Feds blasted for lack of cleanup (Navajo Times)

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CHINLE , Oct. 25, 2007

By Cindy Yurth
Navajo Times

... Ray Manygoats of Tuba City, whose father worked in the nearby Rare Metals uranium mill, recalled his family cooking on a grill made from a sifting screen his father had brought home from the mill, and playing marbles with grinding balls used to crush the ore.

Today, he said, he suffers from unexplained growths on his eyes and sores on his ears. A relative of his, whose family also worked in the mines, was born without hair and never grew it.

Manygoats' mother died of lung cancer, and his father has breathing problems.

Council Delegate Phil Harrison (Red Valley/Cove) and others testified of scarring on their lungs, lung cancer among people who never smoked, miscarriages and birth defects among their children ...

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