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The assembly also will consider whether to extend for an additional year the moratorium on uranium mining. Marline Uranium Corp. has found rich uranium deposits in Pittsylvania County, a rural county on North Carolina border.
The legislature initiated the ban until it could study the environmental effects of mining the uranium, whose tailings are radioactive.
Nine lobbyists for CSX alone — including former Gov. Dalton — are registered, as well as representatives of other railroads. On the other side, seven lobbyists were signed up on behalf of Virginia Coal Slurry Associates and the Virginia Coal Pipeline Association.
The lobbying also will get heavy on one of the big issues last year — raising the beer-drinking age.
The governor wanted to raise the age to 21 last year, and the House of Delegates voted for that age as well. But a Senate committee forced a compromise on 19 for drinking beer in restaurants and bars. It had been
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