NM seeks to intervene in uranium case
Posted at: 08/11/2009 1:01 PM
By: SUE MAJOR HOLMES, Associated Press Writer
The decision says a proposed uranium mine site in western New Mexico is on American Indian land.
The attorney general's office and the governor's chief counsel filed the friend of the court brief Monday before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
Their brief supports a petition by Uranium Resources Inc. for a rehearing before the full court.
The state says it's interested because of the jurisdictional question presented.
The 10th Circuit panel's decision means a Uranium Resources subsidiary must obtain a groundwater injection permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
That would delay a planned Church Rock mine.
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