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House advances bill to give state more oversight of uranium mill tailings
Summary
The House advanced a first substitute to give the state Department of Environmental Quality authority to regulate uranium mills and mill tailings, create fees to fund oversight and add two board seats; sponsors said fees would fund four new DEQ FTEs to perform inspections and regulatory oversight for several Utah sites.
House members debated and advanced a first substitute of Senate Bill 96 to expand state authority over uranium milling operations and mill tailings oversight.
Representative Gowans, presenting the measure, said the bill modifies the Radiation Control Act to authorize the Department of Environmental Quality to regulate certain uranium recovery operations and related activities and to seek agreement‑state primacy from the…
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