Pam Schuller
U. S. Bureau of Land Management
Salt Lake Field Office
2370 South 2300 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84119
Ms. Schuller:
I am a resident of Salt Lake County and a local businessperson. I have lived in this area all of my life and am gravely concerned about the proposed transport of high level nuclear waste owned or possessed by Private Fuel Storage through the middle of the Wasatch Front and its eventual storage at the Skull Valley Indian Reservation in Tooele County.
I want to make three points. First, I am not convinced that any such storage at the reservation will ever really be “temporary” despite comments to the contrary by PFS. Second, I am not convinced that PFS or anyone else has properly considered the intense public safety risk posed by the transport of such materials through the heart of our state’s population. Third, I am certainly not convinced that there has been any real attempt to secure the waste at the proposed “dumping off” point at the railhead in Tooele County.
For these reasons, I vehemently oppose the issuance of any permit by the BLM to allow PFS to obtain any rights-of-way over BLM land for the purpose of transporting or even temporarily storing any of this nuclear waste.
This is not good for our quality of life, it is not good for our public safety, it is not good for our image, and it is not good for business.
