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Senate endorses moving Moab tailings, asks Atlas to commit reclamation funds

Utah State Senate · February 17, 1999
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Summary

Senate adopted a substituted House Concurrent Resolution endorsing moving the Moab radioactive tailings and including an amendment that commits Atlas to $8,360,000 toward reclamation costs; senators flagged unresolved state liability questions.

Senator Dimitris offered an amendment to Substitute HCR1 that, as he described it on the floor, "commits Atlas to $8,360,000 in the recovery of this moving miss Telling's power" (transcript phrasing). The amendment was described as reflecting monies Atlas had set aside under its reclamation bond while senators asked whether that…

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