Utah Nuclear Waste Site a Hot Issue
Posted on: Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 21:00 CST
A proposed nuclear waste storage site in Utah has hit another roadblock as the state's senior U.S. senator weighs in on the issue.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican, said an agreement between the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a Minnesota-based company is not binding because of federal law, The Provo Daily Herald reports.
The National Historic Preservation Act calls for every affected agency to sign off on the project, which would send 44,000 tons of radioactive material by rail into an area leased from the Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley.
The Bureau of Land Management would have to amend its land use plan to allow a railroad track.
A 1999 provision of the Act is preventing that from happening. It calls for a study by the Pentagon before the land use plan can be changed.
That study has not taken place yet.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah's congressional delegation wants a wilderness designation for the area in question to be put in an upcoming defense bill, effectively blocking that railroad.
Private Fuel Storage LLC, said in that case it may use trucks to bring the nuclear waste to Utah.
Source: United Press International
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