NRC SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTS FOR 

THREE PROPOSED URANIUM RECOVERY FACILITIES 

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statements (SEIS) for three proposed uranium recovery facilities in 

Wyoming. 

 The draft reports are the first issued by the agency under its Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities (GEIS, NUREG-1910), published 

in June. The GEIS analyzed environmental impacts common to in situ recovery operations in 

four regions of the western United States. The SEIS for each facility examines site-specific 

impacts unique to that proposed facility and its location, incorporating relevant discussion and 

conclusions from the GEIS. 

 The three draft reports cover license applications for the Moore Ranch Project, proposed 

by Uranium One in Campbell County; the Lost Creek Project, proposed by Lost Creek ISR, 

LLC, for Sweetwater County; and the Nichols Ranch Project, proposed by Uranerz Energy Corp. 

in Campbell and Johnson counties. These reports were coordinated with the state of Wyoming, 

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, as well as 

potentially affected Native American tribes. 

 The reports contain the agency’s preliminary recommendations that, unless safety issues 

mandate otherwise, there are no environmental impacts that would preclude granting licenses for 

the proposed facilities. 

 The GEIS and the individual draft SEIS reports are available on the NRC’s Web site 

through the agency’s online documents database, ADAMS, at the following page: 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html , using accession numbers ML093350050 

for Moore Ranch; ML093350051 for Lost Creek; and ML093340536 for Nichols Ranch. They 

will also be posted soon at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1910. 

Notices of the draft reports’ availability will be published Dec. 11 in the Federal Register. 

 More information on the in situ uranium recovery process is available at 

http://www.nrc.gov/materials/uranium-recovery/extraction-methods/isl-recovery-facilities.html. 

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No. 09-197 December 10, 2009
 The deadline for comments is Feb. 1. Comments on the draft SEIS reports may be 

submitted online through the federal government’s rulemaking Web site, 

http://www.regulations.gov using docket numbers NRC-2009-0364 for Moore Ranch, 

NRC-2008-0391 for Lost Creek, and NRC-2008-0339 for Nichols Ranch. Comments may be 

e-mailed to MooreRanchISRSEIS@nrc.gov, LostCreekISRSEIS@nrc.gov, or 

NicholsRanchISRSEIS@nrc.gov. They may also be mailed to Michael T. Lesar, Chief, 

Rulemaking and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

D.C. 20555-0001. Comments may also be submitted by fax to (301) 492-3446. 

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