ML22112A023

News Release-22-017: NRC Chairman and Commissioners to Visit New Mexico for Briefings on Uranium Milling Issues and Contamination

ML22112A023
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Issue date:	04/20/2022
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No: 22- 017 April 20, 2022 CONTACT: Office of Public Affairs, 301 -415-8200 NRC Chairman and Commissioners to Visit New Mexico for Briefings on Uranium Milling Issues and Contamination

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Christopher T. Hanson, Commissioner Jeff Baran and Commissioner David Wright will receive an overview of the 2020- 2029 plan to address the impacts of uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation.

Meeting panelists representing the NRC, the Navajo Nation, the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. EPA, the U.S. DOE, the state of Utah, the Spokane Tribe of Indians, and the Red Water Pond Road Communityalso will provide perspectives on remediation activities at former uranium mill sites throughout the West, including activities at the NE Church Rock Mine and United Nuclear Corporation Mill Site activities.

The NRC will also hold a meeting to provide the Commission with a first -hand account from members of the community regarding the impacts of uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation.

Ten-Year Plan to Address Impacts of Uranium NRC to Meet with Navajo Members of the Red Water Pond Contamination on the Navajo Nation and Lessons Road Community Learned from Former Uranium Mill Sites to be When: Friday, April 22, 2022 Discussed 2:30- 4:30 p.m., Mountain Daylight time When: Friday, April 22, 2022 Where: Red Water Pond Road Chaaoh 6:30- 9:30 p.m., Mountain Daylight time (Shade House), New Mexico.

Where: Hilton Garden Inn, The GPS coordinates are 35.68485338436599, -

1530 W. Maloney, Ave., Gallup, New Mexico. 108.5433161361636. From Church Rock on State Route 566, How to attend: In -person (limited), live by webcast at travel northeast for 11 miles. After Mile Marker 11 and Pipeline the Web address, https://video.nrc.gov or by phone: Road, the road bends to the left. Shortly after is a Red Water 800- 369-2047; Listen-only passcode: 6097034 Pond Road sign. Turn right off State Route 566 onto Red Water Pond Road. The meeting location is a pproximately a quarter mile Additional information: Reasonable accommodatio ns on the right.

information can be found in the Federal Register How to attend: The meeting will be held in compliance with Notice. The meeting will be transcribed. Navajo Public Health Emergency Order 2022-05. At this time, the reopening status is yellow (moderate transmission of COVID-19) and the Red Water Pond Road Community Meeting facility will be allowed to seat up to 50 persons. The groun ds surrounding the facility will be set up in a drive -in setting where participants remain in their vehicles during the broadcast of the meeting via public address/sound system. Masks are required to be worn in public. For additional information on public health restrictions and to check the reopening status on the day of the meeting, go to:

https://www.ndoh.navajo-nsn.gov/covid-19