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EPA draws fire from OST
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor
PINE RIDGE, South Dakota – The Environmental Protection Agency broke two federal laws on November 24 by permitting underground water use for uranium mining and waste disposal at the proposed Dewey Burdock site in the southern Black Hills, according to Oglala Sioux Tribe Water Resources Department Administrator Reno Red Cloud Sr.
“The OST and environmental groups will be meeting next week and working on a response to this action,” he told journalists at a news conference following the EPA announcement.
“We are aware of the EPA failure to comply with the NEPA-NHPA regulations for consultation. We will respond soon,” he said at the online conference.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe and numerous other intervenors already have taken the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and private foreign investors to federal court and administrative appeals boards over more than 10 years for violating the bedrock NEPA, or National Environmental Protection Act, and NHPA, or National Historic Preservation Act in pursuit of Dewey Burdock permits.


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