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Show no gE ran AROUND THE BEND AGAIN... from natural or native ores containing uranium. The mill would process the material to recover the small amount of existing usable uranium. The remainder of the material would be dumped in the existing mill tailings at the millsite. The history of the St. Louis material shows that uranium was processed for the production of uranium metal. A chemical manufacturing plant continues to this date. The processed uranium ores came from domestic sources and from Africa. Many chemicals and acids—nitric in San Juan County and a host of other chemicals are That Register notice stated that "any person whose interest may be On the face of these requirements, this request would seem to be quite simple. But gosh almighty, this is far from the truth. In reality there is no hearing at all, because few entities or persons actually are allowed to be heard. An administrative law judge, appointed by NRC, flips you off. Public hearing? The public be damned. A number of us made a request brought together in one spot. See the uranium material dug from the deep rich uranium beds of Africa. Pull up to the parking lot-—-do you smell the acid (like at Nucla)? Nothing just like it in all the world. The ore looks safe enough to eat, right Cal?---just a big rock to be heard in past proceedings as did the Navajo Nation and we all got slapped down too. Reader, I hope you'll try this yourself---go make your own simple request for a hearing. And you'll have a hilarious time watching the legal jargon swapping back and forth. Papers, and papers, and papers. You'll hear criticism in legal tones (or tomes) from International Uranium, the NRC staff, and the administrative law judge appointed by the NRC. You'll be chastised because you didn’t serve your papers correctly, that you didn’t show your presentation was timely, and that you did not make a case you might be Project Wastes ---the nuclear waste dumping-ground of the world. San Juan County’s newest contribution to our nation’s heritage. And while here, be sure to visit Monticello and Blanding. They have always been rival towns. Monticello has the Mormon temple; Blanding now has the famous hazardous waste dump. And while here, dear visitor, tour the rest of the county. We have scenery and we inhaling too much radiation to cause yourself injury or that others might be injured. What devious and ludicrous ways to keep people from testifying at a hearing that was set up to receive information from the very people that might be grievously affected. But have Indians and we have descendants of the Hole-in-the-Rock pioneers and we have Lake Foul and we have other things to look at too. San Juan County has it all! We owe the dump to many people, but let us not forget San Juan’s esteemed Commissioners, Bill Redd and Ty Lewis, who indefatigably and relentlessly led the fight to allow this wonderful dump to be sited in San Juan County, where our population is low and our people are in deep poverty, many dying from cancerous diseases left over from those former glorious uranium mining days. Thanks guys, what a legacy! What a fight it has been over the years. Remember the fight for the first high level what goes around comes around. When one is not able to present his or her views or evidence at a public forum, there comes polarization, distrust, cynicism: It appears that the NRC, the corporations they regulate, and the NRC judges are all in bed together. The public interest be damned! I pray this is not the case, but I fear it might be right on. This whole thing is just too damned pat. Anyway, I’m going to request to be heard at the hearing again even though Ill probably nuclear underground waste dump? You commissioners wanted it right up there at the be knocked out again. Who knows, the third time around might be the charm, and I'll get to go to Washington DC to testify. I’ve never been to Washington. entrance to Canyonlands National Park; it would have been quite a monument, but those damn environmentalists ruined it all for you. And then you just about had the high-level nuclear waste Monitored Retrieval Storage thing, but the Governor intruded and wouldn’t let you have it. But you’ve done it now. Pay day! You now have your very own San Juan County International Nuclear Waste Dump. What a catch. Good for the economy. (America take note: clean up your old hazardous dumps and send them to San Juan County-—the new dumping ground of America!) The Army Corp of Engineers, doing the remediation work, demands "appropriately . |. licensed facilities." The irony is that the White Mesa mill appears not to be an appropriately licensed or permitted facility for this material. It was only designed to process and recover uranium from conventional-type ores. The acceptance and processing of these other alternate feed materials had not even been considered when studies were being conducted and plans made to build the mill. And that’s just what America is doing. Thousands of tons of radioactive waste are now mill just finished receiving thousands of tons of the hazardous wastes from the Tonawanda, Federal publication of this Federal Register Notice." Come see the debris left over from the construction of the first Atomic Bomb, the bomb that killed over 200,000 people in Hiroshima! See the world’s most dangerous tailings, about to be moved from the St. Louis, Missouri dumpsites to White Mesa. The White Mesa same affected by this proceeding may file a request for a hearing within 30 days of the to San Juan County’s newest national preserve, the San Juan International Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump, featuring radionuclides and chemicals collected from all over the world! now celebrate The Manhattan acid, magnesium, Blanding. Should the Army Engineers ship 80,000 tons per year it would average about 70 to 80 truckloads per week for 12 months of the year. This would go on for several years. At the mill site, the waste material would be emptied from the containers and stockpiled. It would later be processed alone or co-mingled with conventional ores and processed in the same manner as that used to process conventional ores. By Ken Sleight candy mountain. We hydrofluoric large intermodal containers, loaded onto flatbed railcars (four containers to a car), and shipped west to the railroad sidings of Grand Junction, Cisco, Green River, or East Carbon. On transfer, it would be hauled by truck to the White Mesa mill near Blanding. Many truck loads of waste per week would pass through the towns of Moab, Monticello, and SAN JUAN COUNTY INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP Welcome acid, abundant. Add to this the residuals include spent pitchblende ore, processed chemicals, radium, thorium, uranium, and their decay products. These all would be added to the White Mesa mill dump if the application is approved. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) expects to excavate and deliver from 20,000 to 80,000 tons per year of this nuclear waste material. This material will be dumped into _. The NRC, in its past approvals, did not follow its own internal guidance on making its determinations. The NRC is mandated to approve license applications on the basis of a set of guidance instructions. This "guidance list" addresses ten items that must be evaluated New York dumpsites and it is eager to get more. before International Uranium Corporation (the White Mesa mill) had made its application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 2 to amend its Source Material existing regulation of the material, the hazardous nature of the material, and a consideration License to move the waste here. On May 4, the NRC then published in the Federal Register a "Notice of Consideration" ofa license amendment for International Uranium Corporation’s White Mesa uranium mill. The stuff being brought in is to be considered an "alternate feed" material. It is different PAUL'S GLASS & GARAGE DooRS making a determination that such material can be in a tailings of potential environmental impacts (emphasis mine). Much of these have not been considered in full. The company’s primary goal, I’m sure, is to receive the hefty "recycling fee," a disposal fee from the government. 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