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Show ACTIVE TIMES been sued a lot of times before. They’re very happy as they’ ve never been forced to change (their decision). So it may be that we end up living with the pile on the bank of the river, but we dig in our heels and try to protect Round Mountain. (From question and answer period) Re. River Road: They (UDOT) don’t want to give any over- weight permits for the road. We’ve been working with them on that. They’ re very opposed to that. They have enough trouble with the road as it is, with our school kids going up and down there. But Atlas’ response to that is to say they’ll use smaller trucks and run twice as many of them. They’re determined to get around them. Water User’s Downstream: We’ ve got the complete mailing list for the Glen Canyon Dam operating EIS, which was every group that used water out of the Colorado and every irrigation district and recreational district. We sent them all letters describing what - OCTOBER 15, 1995 - not something that can be approached inlthe whole big fight over the tailings many truck loads and so many man pi e. don’t really have a conceptual plan What can be done? Skip Knightengale is the treasurer of the State Trust Lands. He‘s supposed to be representing South East Utah. If he could be thoughtfully approached by the Town, that would help. But it won’t be good to go storming the castle and making him be a bad guy. Water Issues: (The Town is working on a water shed protection ordinance, but it is not clear at this time if this will be helpful in dealing with Atlas’ proposed mining of Round Mountain.) Cost of Capping: There are cost projections but you need to know how much 8.8. the cost projections are. They’re claiming that they can cover the pile in place for one quarter of the cost per ton that anyone has ever done it for at any other site. And yet when they talk about moving it they say it will cost us more than twice as much per ton than it has cost anyone else. There is absolutely no analysis that says, ‘Capping it breaks down into these different jobs and there will be so 9 hours,’ or ‘moving it involves...’ They about moving it, and yet they put a cost on it. Cost is a big factor and it’s not being addressed. The EIS is going to be an easy thing to tear apart, but we’re dealing with the NRC which gets to make it's own rules. What eISe you can do: IfOrrin Hatch got a thoughtful letter from every person in this room citing some substantive objections to covering the pile in place, that would mean more than if he got one letter from the FDA. Ideally he’d get both. Something that we’re planning on doing is producing a fact sheet that lists a number of objections. People can get this and cite things that are especially important to them. Form letters and petitions are useful but they have less impact on someone like Orrin Hatch than if he really got individual letters. What everybody needs to know is that you have a short time to do it in. And if you don’t do it, the consequences could be really big. (Bill Hedd‘en’s comments, Annual POA Meeting) happened. That really made Atlas and the NRC mad. To get people involved in an issue that is that far away from them (is hard). The river dilutes the stuff. The river is not being turned into a horror show. We’re talking about just another increment in junk in the Colorado River. The NRC's position in writing is that is wouldn’t matter if the entire pile went into the river in a catastrophic flood. It would be diluted. We know that the sediments in the river near the pile are about 50 times higher in radioactivity and heavy metals than the sediments up and down stream. When they tested the fish they found that 40% had almost 5 times as much HOUSECLEANING BY THE PROS! LET US HELP GET YOU READY FOR FAMILY ' FRIENDS ° SANTA WE DO WINDOWS TOO! SANDY 259-2999 ' LAURA 259-402l MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT NOW! CV REFERENCES CV RESIDENTS radioactivity in their tissues as the control fish. Building Stone Lease: I believe that in building stone leases it lists the Castle Valley kinds of stone that are acceptable, and basalt is not listed. The problem with the whole issue of Round Mountain is that it’s completely separate in the EIS from the issue of reclaiming the pile. Inn 31.4 ‘:._J‘.‘,' I The NRC is only telling Atlas they have to put rock of a certain quality there. They’re not going to face up to the fact that it’s coming from Round Mountain at all. They (NRC) just said, ‘get some rock that meets these durability standards.’ So it will never be addressed in the EIS. It will be some sub-contractor dealing with the State Trust Lands to get some rock. So It’s For the best rest out west. A Bed and Breakfast Eric Thomson & Lynn Forbes Thomson 801-259—6012 CVSR 2602, Moab, Utah 84532 . |