Today’s Deseret News has published an article entitled Nuclear waste battle: a historic turn. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is opening the issue of nuclear waste storage on the Goshute Reservation by a private consortium, Private Fuel Storage (PFS), by having public comment on how PFS would protect recognized historic places. This is another step in the process of issuing the license to PFS.
The Advisory Council on Historic Preseravation has generated a list of how moving and storing nuclear waste would impact historical sites. An agreement had been reached between PFS and the groups who had generated this list in 2001. But the BLM and the Utah State Historic Preservation Officer would not sign it.
The details for public comment on this right of ways are forthcoming.
In related news, the House of Representatives on Monday pushed Utah one step closer to its biggest victory so far in trying to block Private Fuel Storage’s proposed rail line by approving the 2006 National Defense Authorization bill.
The Senate must approve the bill and George W. Bush must sign it.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 