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RENO – The Bureau of Land Management signaled Friday that the U.S. Department of Energy wants Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as its potential nuclear waste dump site until 2022.
The bureau (BLM) said that it published a notice Friday in the Federal Register announcing that the department (DOE) in the Bush administration has proposed extending withdrawal of 4,255 acres at Yucca Mountain for an additional 12 years, which would move the current 2010 deadline to 2022.
“The public lands are withdrawn from leasing under the mineral leasing laws in order to maintain the physical integrity of the subsurface environment at Yucca Mountain,” the BLM said in a release.
Comments on the DOE proposal and requests for a public meeting to discuss it will be accepted for 90 days, which BLM said is until Dec. 11.
The lands initially were withdrawn for a dozen years from the prospect of leasing in 1990 via a public land order, then again for eight by another in 2002.
Comments or meeting requests may be made prior to the December deadline by mailing them to Nevada State Director, attention: Yucca Mountain Withdrawal, Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, NV 89520.
Additional information is available by contacting
Jacqueline_Gratton@blm.gov.
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