Associated Press - May 21, 2009 5:15 PM ET
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A subcommittee of the Virginia Commission on Coal and Energy has approved the framework of a scientific study on proposed uranium mining in Virginia.
The subcommittee on Thursday amended a list of recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences on what would be included in the study.
Among the major revisions was moving an item on assessing health risks to workers and the public to the top of the list. The study will not take a position for or against the mining.
Before uranium could be mined in Virginia, the General Assembly would have to lift a ban that has been in place since 1982.
The study was requested as a first step to lifting that ban by a company that wants to mine a 119 million-pound Pittsylvania County deposit.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
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