What regulatory agencies oversee in situ recovery ( ISR )...

What regulatory agencies oversee in situ recovery ( ISR ) operations in Colorado?

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) oversees and regulates the process of in situ uranium recovery.

However Colorado is an " Agreement State ", meaning that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
( CDPHE ) has entered into an agreement with the NRC to oversee all uranium licensing and permitting on NRC's behalf.

Source Material and By Product Licenses are issued by the CDPHE's Radiation Program of the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division.

However, the other divisions of the CDPHE and the Department of Natural Resources Mined Land and Reclamation Board, as well as local county agencies will have active rolls in the review for application of License.

Colorado agencies have a strong record of reviewing radiation matters and licensing uranium mills - the effect of this responsibility is that the local state personnel are going to be the regulators, rather than a distant federal agency out of Washington.

EPA, Region 8, located in Denver will also have an active roll as they will be the agency issuing the Underground Injection Control ( UIC ) Permit and aquifer exemption.

Permitting is a process Tony Simpson is very familiar with.

There will be the usual Greenie bumps in the road, but we seem to have a history of flattening them out.



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