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Associated Press - October 27, 2009 7:55 PM ET
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. David Paterson says the federal goverment is agreeing to pay for 90 percent of the clean up of the Western New York Nuclear Service Center known as the West Valley Site, ending a decade-long dispute.
Under the agreement New York will pay 10 percent of the cost of cleaning up the Cattaraugus County site.
So far the cost to the state and federal governments is more than $2.4 billion in cleanup costs for the high-level waste site. New York has paid more than $270 million.
The 3,300-acre site 30 miles south of Buffalo housed the nation's first commercial nuclear reprocessing facility from 1966 to 1972.
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