Nuclear Free Great Basin

February Action Alert

On February 7th, 2006, the Bureau of Land Management issued an announcement requesting public comments ( read the full announcement published in the Federal Registry) that will address right-of-way applications filed by Private Fuel Storage (PFS), LLC, for an independent spent fuel storage installation on reservation lands of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians (Band or Skull Valley Band).

The installation is described in an environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), entitled Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Construction and Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation on the Reservation of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians and the Related Transportation Facility in Tooele County, Utah (December 2001). This EIS is available online

DATES: The Bureau of Land Management should receive your comments by May 8, 2006.

ADDRESS: You should address your comments to the attention of Pam Schuller, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake Field Office, 2370 S. 2300 W., Salt Lake City, Utah 84119.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Schuller, Environmental Specialist, Salt Lake Field Office, 801-977-4356.

Please send in your comments!

Demand public hearings be held in Salt Lake City and Tooele, UT

To see a pdf of the proposed routes in Utah, click here

Read talking points and sample public comments developed by Shundahai Network

Read Shundahai Networks press release and official public comment

Find out how you can be involved in educating the public and helping to organize opposition so that we can stop this nuclear dump!

Click here for more information about the proposed PFS nuclear waste dump including community and tribal resistance

The State of Utah’s Opposition in the Private Fuel Storage Licensing Proceeding

The Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation is still in the process for consideration for unprecedented "temporary" storage of America’s high-level nuclear waste, until a permanent storage facility is approved at Yucca Mountain Nevada- a mountain sacred to the indigenous Western Shoshone Nation.

Private Fuel Storage (PFS), a "limited-liability" consortium of commercial nuclear utilities wants to site a "temporary" above ground dump for 40,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste on the ancestral and Reservation land of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians.

The Skull Valley Goshute Reservation is located approximately 45 miles upwind of Salt Lake City, and is steeped in controversy within the Skull Valley Band of Goshute's and various Government and Non-Governmental entities. Skull Valley is earthquake prone, and is surrounded by various military aircraft and weapons testing grounds.

On September 9, 2005, the NRC approved the license for the PFS/Skull Valley high-level nuclear waste facility on a 4-1 vote. Although there are still hurdles to cross PFS has publicly said it expects to begin accepting nuclear shipments by the end of 2007.

As it stands, the proposal is still on the table. Without continued and determined opposition, the dump may well get approval by the Federal government.

Click here for more information about the proposed PFS nuclear waste dump including community and tribal resistance