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U.S. -OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 411
115TH CONGRESS S REPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-247
RESPONSIBLE DISPOSAL REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2017
MAY 10, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKJ, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1059]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1059) to extend the authorization of the Ura-
nium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 relating to the
disposal site in Mesa County, Colorado, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
This bill amends the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control
Act of 1978 to extend through Fiscal Year 2048 the authorization
for the Department of Energy (DOE) to operate the Cheney dis-
posal cell in Mesa County, Colorado.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Grand Junction, Colorado, is home to a former uranium proc-
essing site known as the Climax mill that closed in 1970. The mill
operated for 19 years and produced 2.2 million tons of radioactive
tailings, the material that remained after most of the uranium
metal had been extracted from uranium ore. From 1950 to 1966,
mill tailings were available to private citizens to use as construc-
tion materials and more than 4,000 private and commercial prop-
erties in the Grand Junction area utilized the radioactive tailings
(these buildings are referred to as vicinity properties).
In 1978, Congress found that uranium mill tailings located at
uranium mill sites may pose a potential and significant hazard to
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