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Committee hears proposal to permit conversion and enrichment facilities; environmental groups urge caution
Summary
Chair Gary Perry introduced House Bill 696 to allow the siting of uranium conversion and enrichment facilities for material mined or milled in Montana or imported into the state.
Chair Gary Perry introduced House Bill 696, which would authorize uranium conversion and enrichment facilities either for uranium mined and milled in Montana or for material transported into the state for processing. Perry described the bill as forward‑looking and part of a broader effort to secure critical minerals and nuclear fuel supply chains.
Opponents raised environmental, economic and community concerns. Nick Fitzmaurice, energy transition engineer with the Montana Environmental Information Center, argued that the bill as written would invite Montana to be a processing route for uranium produced elsewhere and could…
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