OCTOBER 1996
NRC tells Atlas its Moab tailings site is acceptable
Atlas Corp. said Oct 15 that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded "the Atlas site is acceptable for permanent reclamation of the tailings" from the company's Moab, Utah site.
The decision came after a review of the Draft Technical Evaluation Report published in January and subsequent work done by Atlas to address all remaining technical issues, the company said.
Of the 20 open issues identified in the DEIS, the NRC concluded that 11 of the 20 issues have been adequately resolved.
NRC further clarified the status of the remaining nine by stating that "all nine are either engineering details or specifications and as such, we see no reason why they could not be resolved promptly."
Richard E. Blubaugh, vice president of environmental and governmental affairs for Atlas, said the responses to those issues could now be addressed.
"It was not logical to respond to those issues until we had confirmation that the existing site was acceptable," Blubaugh said.
"Based upon this letter, we are confident that we can resolve the final issues quickly and intend to submit the responses to the remaining issues to the NRC within the week," he said in an Oct 15 press release from Atlas.