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Calendar No. 187
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-98
RESPONSIBLE DISPOSAL REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2019
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 347]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 347) 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
The purpose of H.R. 347 is to extend the authorization of the
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (Public Law
95-604) relating to the disposal site in Mesa County, Colorado.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Grand Junction, Colorado, is home to a former uranium proc-
essing site known as the Climax uranium mill that closed in 1970.
The mill operated for 19 years and produced 2.2 million tons of ra-
dioactive tailings, the material that remained after most of the ura-
nium metal had been extracted from uranium ore. From 1950 to
1966, mill tailings were available to private citizens to use as con-
struction materials and more than 4,000 private and commercial
properties in the Grand Junction area utilized the radioactive
tailings (these buildings are referred to as vicinity properties). In
1966, the Colorado Department of Health sampled the tailings from
the site uncovering elevated levels of radon-222.
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