Reclamation of Atlas Corporation's Uranium Mill Facility at Moab, UT: Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and To Conduct a Scoping Process

Résumé

The NRC intends to prepare an EIS for the decommissioning and reclamation of the Atlas Corporation's (Atlas) uranium mill facility at Moab, Utah. Atlas has been licensed by the NRC to process ores (source material) to produce uranium, in the form of yellowcake. As a result of processing ores, the facility produced a large quantity of sand and slime tailings which contain much of the radioactive materials from the ore in the form of daughter products. Atlas no longer actively processes ore at the Moab, Utah mill. It is however, decommissioning the mill, and has submitted a revised reclamation plan to NRC which, like the reclamation plan approved by NRC in 1982, proposes on-site stabilization of the tailings. This notice indicates NRC's intent to prepare an EIS in conjunction with this proposed action and to conduct a scoping process that will include a public scoping meeting. Written comments on matters covered by this notice received by May 13, 1994, will be considered in developing the scope of the EIS. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to assure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.