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Imagine a Utah that cannot shut the gate on foreign radioactive waste, cannot outlaw hotter low-level waste and cannot even revoke the license of a nuclear waste disposal site within its borders. That anything-goes scenario might well become reality if EnergySolutions Inc. wins its legal quest to strip a regional waste agency of its legal powers, according to a lawyer for the state of Utah. The issue is at the core of a case argued Thursday before U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart. EnergySolutions says a regional oversight agency has no say over the company's mile-square disposal site in Tooele County, since it's a private business with cross-border commerce rights granted by the U.S. Constitution.