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Victory for Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, White Mesa Ute Community, Greenaction, Sierra Club, Living Rivers, City of Moab, Grand County and other allies! April 6, 2005 Department of Energy rejects sending uranium waste from Moab, Utah to International Uranium Corporation’s White Mesa Mill, located on top of sacred Ute and Navajo sites….and agrees the waste does have to be moved to a safer and better site away from the Colorado River and not on sacred Indian lands. See Also: Press coverage in The Moab Times Press coverage in The Salt Lake Tribune Read the fact sheet and action alert Press coverage in Zephyr
Newspaper.
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DOE Announces Preferred Alternatives For Moab, Utah, Uranium Mill Tailings WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the department's preferred alternatives for remediation of the Moab, Utah, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project Site: active groundwater remediation, and offsite disposal of the tailings pile and other contaminated materials to the proposed Crescent Junction disposal site. These preferred alternatives
will be included in the Department of Energy's Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS). Previously,
the department did not identify a preferred alternative, in its draft
Environmental Impact Statement on the remediation of the Moab, Utah,
Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project.The preferred alternatives
do not indicate that the department has reached a final decision on
remediation of the Moab site. The department continues to review
comments it has received from the public on the site.A Final EIS on
the Moab, Utah, Uranium Mill Tailings site and the remediation of the
site is in preparation, and the final department Record of Decision
will be issued following the release of the Final EIS for the Moab
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