Here’s the letter from EPA Assistant Regional Administrator Stephen S. Tuber to the Energy Fuels Company.
More coverage from the Associated Press (Catharine Tsai) via The Pueblo Chieftain:
Federal regulators have approved Energy Fuels Resources Corp.’s plan to build a roughly 30-acre tailings cell and about 40 acres of evaporation ponds at its proposed Pinon Ridge uranium mill in Southwest Colorado, but there are conditions. The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter Wednesday that the approval is contingent on the agency approving a plan by the company to monitor ground and surface water.
More coverage from Gary Harmon writing for The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. From the article:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a construction approval to Energy Fuels Resources Corp. for the construction and operation of uranium byproduct material impoundments at the Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill.
Company officials still have to obtain air-quality permits from the state and are hoping to begin construction in 2012.
