StockInterview.com interview with Richard Blubaugh, Powertech environmental manager - April 2, 2007
Excerpt:
StockInterview:
Let’s take Powertech as an example. How long
would this process take your company to complete so you could mine at Dewey
Burdock (South Dakota) or Centennial (Colorado)?
Richard Blubaugh:
We are looking at South Dakota where we have NRC. When we are talking about
the NRC and EIS process, 2010 or 2011 is what you are probably looking at
there. But, for Colorado, in our case, we already have our schedule in place
and our consultants selected and we are going to see. But, this is without a
mill.
We are looking at
conventional mining on one of our deposits – open pit – before 2010.
StockInterview:
Where would the ore get milled? And would you
have it trucked to a mill?
Richard Blubaugh:
We’ve been talking to Sweetwater. It would work just like it would for any
other trucking facility, except we would have to get a hazardous
transportation permit from DOT (Department of Transportation). Then there’s
rail. We have rail close to both our facilities in our planned operations in
South Dakota and in Colorado.
StockInterview:
How do you avoid
dealing with a federal agency?
Richard Blubaugh:
The agreement states – Texas, Utah, and Colorado – don’t have the EIS
requirement. They may have requirements that are almost similar to an EIS
requirement, but some of them don’t. If you are going to build a new
processing facility, then yes there will be an EIS. But if you are just
going to build a satellite facility, or if you are going to build an open
pit mine or underground mine to conventional mining facilities, you do not
require an EIS.
Full interview:
http://www.stockinterview.com/News/04022007/Making-Uranium-Mining-Safer.html