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House unanimously backs resolution asking DOE for funds to finish Moab uranium tailings cleanup
Summary
House passes SCR 3 (69–0), asking the U.S. Department of Energy to increase funding by $45 million annually to complete removal and disposal of remaining uranium mill tailings near Moab by 2025; sponsor cited downstream risks to the Colorado River and a current pile reduced from 16 million to 8 million tons.
The Utah House passed SCR 3, a concurrent resolution requesting that the United States Department of Energy allocate additional funding to complete the Moab uranium mill tailings remedial action project by 2025.
Representative Watkins, sponsor of the resolution, told members the project began in 2009 to remove…
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