By GoDanRiver Staff
Published: November 22, 2010
Six firms submitted proposals to conduct the socioeconomic study on the impacts of uranium mining around Coles Hill.
The Uranium Mining Subcommittee of the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission requested proposals at the end of September with a Nov. 15 deadline.
The subcommittee is expected to make a decision on a firm during a public meeting in December.
The studies are due by December next year.
The studies will help state leaders determine policy on uranium mining and milling in the state, which had a moratorium on it since 1982..
A grant of up to $200,000 from the Virginia Tobacco Commission is paying for the socioeconomic study.
To view the proposals, visit the Coal and Energy Commission website at http://dls.state.va.us/groups/cec/Uranium/info.htm and click the socioeconomic study link.
What firms want to do the study?
• AngelouEconomics, economic development and site selection consultancy in Austin, along with nuclear energy expert Bernard Weinstein, director of Maguire Energy Institute
• Chmura Economics & Analytics in Richmond, along with Issues Management Group and uranium consultant Glenn Pfennigwerth, a senior technical advisor in engineering at Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
• Jack Faucett Associates, an economics and public policy consulting firm headquartered in Bethseda, Md., along with Ronald Cohen, associate professor of environmental science and engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, and Sandler Occupational Medical Associates Inc.
•Old Dominion University and its Social Science Research Center, School of Community and Environmental Health, Regional Studies Institute and Economic Forecasting Project
•Center for Regional Analysis at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University
•Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University
Read more:
http://www2.godanriver.com/news/2010/nov/22/firms-submit-proposals-uranium-study-ar-670895/
