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Intervenors ask Hot Springs to chip in for state uranium hearing to be held locally
Summary
A group of intervenors asked the Hot Springs City Council to join county commissioners in requesting and partially sponsoring a state public hearing on proposed uranium exploration, saying the hearing should be held locally and estimating the city—s share at about $1,957.
Ben Sharp, speaking for a group of intervenors who filed to participate in a proposed uranium exploration permit review, asked the Hot Springs City Council on Oct. 6 to join Fall River County and Oglala Lakota County in requesting that the South Dakota hearing be held in Hot Springs and to contribute toward the hosting costs. "We have applied to the South Dakota Board of Minerals" to ask that the hearing take place locally, Sharp said, adding that he and other intervenors want residents who would be affected to be able to attend without traveling to Pierre.
Sharp said state law requires the agency to be paid for travel and accommodation…
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