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Senate considers resolution urging federal funding for Moab mill-tailings project
Summary
Senators moved to uncircle SCR 3, a concurrent resolution asking the U.S. Department of Energy to adequately fund uranium mill-tailings remediation. Floor discussion highlighted a roughly $3.6 million reallocation and contractor layoffs in Moab. The motion to read the resolution for third reading was called and a roll call began.
Senators considered SCR 3, a concurrent resolution requesting that the U.S. Department of Energy adequately fund the uranium mill tailings remedial action project (the Moab-to-Crescent Junction relocation project).
Senator Hinkins, who brought the motion to uncircle SCR 3, described funding shifts that, in his account, reallocated roughly $3.6 million from a local project and led to layoffs among contractors in Moab. "I think it was, dollars 3,600,000.0, thereabouts," he said on the floor, and he cited an instance where contractors in Moab "had to lay off 70 or so people" tied to the funding changes.
Supporters framed the resolution as an effort to restore or protect federal funding for a long-running cleanup. The Senate called the question on whether to read SCR 3 for a third time and proceeded to a roll-call sequence on the floor.
Floor action in the transcript indicates the item was put to a roll-call vote to take the resolution up for third reading; the clerk recorded the roll call process in the transcript excerpt.
