AP-The Bureau of Indian Affairs' approval of a lease agreement for storing nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute reservation in Utah may have been issued contrary to Interior Department policy at the time.
The proposal to store 44,000 tons of used reactor fuel on the Goshute reservation 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City has been fought in courts and regulatory agencies for nine years. It also has divided the small Goshute Skull Valley Band.
In February, tribal leader Leon Bear and Private Fuel Storage LLC, a Wisconsin-based consortium of utilities, overcame their biggest hurdle when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a license for the proposed waste facility.
Equally critical to the project was a decision in May 1997 by David Allison, a local superintendent for the bureau, which is an Interior Department agency.
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