Shipments of 32,000 tons of Uranium from Oklahoma could roll into San Juan County Utah if the Glen Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club fails in its agency review of the Department of Radiation Control’s decision to approve disposal of such waste in White Mesa.  The DRC granted the International Uranium Corp’s permit amendment so that they could accept the waste.  The company is calling the material “alternate feed material”.  More information about what alternate feed material and EPA’s concerns about such materials can be found here. The Deseret News’s report can be found  here. 

The Ute Indian Tribe has land just to the south of the proposed dumping site.  Most of the 21,000 people within 50 miles of the site are Native Americans associated with the Ute or Navajo Indian Tribes.