Opitions for the Rocky Mountain Compact and the State of Colorado for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in 1989 and post 1992

Summary

The Rocky Mountain Compact consists of four states — Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming. While a low-level radioactive waste site is currently in operation in Nevada, it is scheduled to close by December 31, 1992. Colorado has been designated by the Compact as the next host state to develop a site to accept low-level radioactive wastes produced within the Compact region. Two characteristics of the Rocky Mountain Compact are most noteworthy. First, the four states produce a minimal quantity of medical, educational, industrial and reactor waste in relation to the other Compacts, approximately 4000 to 5000 cubic feet per year on average. Second, unlike other compacts, the Rocky Mountain Compact specifically includes non-discrete radium wastes as low-level radioactive wastes. Colorado has a substantial quantity of radium wastes, on the order of several hundred thousand cubic yards. This amount of radium wastes far exceeds the amount of medical, educational, industrial and reactor low-level radioactive wastes. CURRENT SITUATION The Rocky Mountain Compact currently has before it an application fron Colorado for a disposal site to accept radium wastes only. The site near Uravan in Western Colorado would be operated by the Umetco Minerals

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