Hold on Powertech’s uranium mining license lifted.
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Judges on a federal nuclear regulatory board lifted a temporary stay of Powertech Uranium Corp.’s operating license for their proposed Dewey-Burdock in situ recovery uranium mine in the southern Black Hills Tuesday and denied requests by project interveners to formally stay the license.
Judges on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) removed the temporary stay after Powertech officials revealed that the work they intend to undertake at the Dewey-Burdock site in the next several months—the drilling of an unspecified number of sampling wells for data collection purposes—is legal to perform without an NRC license. Powertech’s disclosure of this information in a May 13 teleconference between the ASLB, NRC Staff, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and a consolidated group of project interveners effectively rendered both the temporary stay and the formal stay requests legally pointless.
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