State drafts tougher standards for uranium mine dust control

The Canyon Uranium Mine near Tusayan/File photo courtesy of Robert Tohe
The Canyon Uranium Mine near Tusayan/File photo courtesy of Robert Tohe

By Emery Cowan | Arizona Daily Sun

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has completed drafts of new, more stringent air quality permits for three uranium mines near the Grand Canyon and the agency will hold a public hearing in Flagstaff next week to get public feedback about them.

The new permit proposals come after ADEQ halted the re-permitting process for the mines late last year following reports that uranium concentrations in soil near one of the mines measured more than four times background levels twice in a row.

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