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MaYnes 19Attention: Mr. Hubert Miller
3'"RE: Request for Issuance of License
Dear Sirst
In accord with my conversation with Mr. Miller on thisdate, we are writing on behalf of Everest Minerals Cor-poration to request that you issue a byproduct materialslicense under the Atomic Energy Act for possession and-
storage of discrete above ground wastes generated by insitu solution mining at the In Situ Uranium Leach MiningProject near Hobson, 'Iexas.
Everest Minerals Corporation has an in situ uranium leachmining project in Karnes County, Texas near the communityof Hobson. This project will circulate an ammonium bi-carbonate solution containing dissolved oxygen through anunderground uranium deposit. The deposit is a fresh wateraquifer confined above and below by impervious aquicludes.The mining zone will be surrounded by monitor wells in themining aquifer and in the next higher aquifer. Duringmining operations, the leach chemicals will be confinedto the mining area by withdrawal of a purge stream fromthe aquifer. The monitor wells are utilized to detect anyoutward movement of leach chemicals from the mining zone.
This process will generate liquid wastes consisting prin-cipally of a purge of fresh water Oom the leach circuitcontaining trace quantities of heavy metals and a purge of
t- salt water from the process plant also containing smallgS quantities of heavy metals. No surface discharge of wastetreams is authorized. All liquid waste streams will be
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formation. Solid waste generated in this process willconsist primarily of ore zone sand produced from theproduction wells, calcite deposits from equipment, cal- ,
cite cemented filter media, and used ion exchange resinbeads. The solid wastes will be temporarily stored ina lined pit on site. From time to time, solid wasteswill be drummed-and shipped to a licensed low level-radio-active waste disposal site.
More complete descriptions of the process and of the wastegenerated are provided in the following items of informa -tion which have previously_been supplied to you:
A. Application to Texas Department of Health forRadioactive Materials Handling License;
B. -Texas Department of Health Radioactive MaterialLicense Number 9-2663;
C.- Application to Texas Department of Water Resources-
for Permit to Dispose of-Waste by Well Injection;
D. Texas Department of Water Resources Waste DisposalWell Permit Number WDW168;
E. Application to Texas Department of Water Resourcesfor Permit to Conduct In Situ Uranium Mining;
F. Texas Department-of Water Resources Water QualityPermit Number 02208;
G. Application to Texas Department of Water Resourcesfor Production Area I Authorization;
H. Texas Department of Water Resources Production AreaAuthorization Number 02208-011;
I. Texas Department of Health, Radiation Control Branch,Division of Occupational Health and Radiation Control,Environmental Assessment;
J. Copies of five cross sections of the shallow orebearing stata. Reduced versions were included inthe packet you received at Hobson.
K.- Copy of the report by Ed Reed & Associates concernin?! the hydrologic testing of the ore bearing zone;i
L. Copies of two deep. horizon cross sections and a welllog which accompany the application to the Texas
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U. S.rNuclear Rsgulatory CommissionAttention: Mr. Hubert Miller- -3-~ September 17, 1979
M.- A copy of_the information packet distrib9ted by theTexas Department of Water Resources to_in situ
-uranium mining permit applicants; and
N. -A. copy of the similar-packet they distribute for deepdisposal well applicants.
The information which we understand to be necessary in orderfor you to issue a license to Everest Minerals Corporationis included within the documents listed above. The corpora-tion's business. address and the location of the plant areincluded in all of the Texas permits and applications. Thenames of the individuals. involved in this project and-a com-
;plete description'of their qualifications are included in '
-Supplemental Item 2 to Item A listed above.
A brief, but complete, description of the process in which theradioactive material will be involved is provided in Attach-ment A to Item E. -A more detailed examination of this processappears in the Environmental Assessment (Item I).
The types, chemical forms, quantities and use of each form ofmaterial'are charted in Paragraph 7 of the Application Formof Item A. This chart includes the maximum total quantity ofmaterial which will be on hand at any time.
The Radiation Detection Instruments which will be used to pro- I
tect health and minimize danger to life and property are item-ized in Paragraph-8 of Item A according to the type of instru-ment, number _available, type of radiation detected and use.
;Paragraph 9 of the same Application sets forth the method, '
frequency and standards usedLin calibrating these instruments.
The proposed procedures to protect health and minimize dangerto life and property and to handle emergency situations inthe event of accident aru particularized fully in Supplemer.talItem 14 to Item-A. These procedures-include survey programs.
Liquid waste solutions generated by this project will beaccumulated in: surge tanks for final disposal by deep wellinjection pursuant to Permit-Number WDW168 (Item D). Radio-active solid waste material will be temporarily re ained inthe Solids Waste Storage Pit, diagram.in Supplemental Unit 6to ItemLA, from which waste wA21. periodically be packaged andshipped to an approved' site for permanent disposal. Supple-. mental' Item 6 to Item A gives an account of this entire pro-cedure.
We understand that you have conducted your own on-the-groundinvestigation of the Hobson Project. Your findings togetherwith~the supplemental information given herein should be
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sufficient-to support the issuance.of the requested license.If there:-is any additional information which you wish us tosupply, please. contact us.
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EVEREST MINERALS CORPORATION-
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; Dear Mr. Miller:
As we agreed, I am enclosing several additional items per-taining to the permitting and licensing of our Hobson UraniumProject. They are:
1. Application and supportive correspondence to the TexasDepartment of Health for a Radioactive Materials Handling
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2. A copy of the Radioactive Materials Handling License.
3. Full tize copies of five cross sections of the shallowore bearing stata. Reduced versions were included inthe pt4cket you received at Hobson.
4. A copy of the report by Ed Reed & Associates concerningthe hydrologic testing of the ore bearing zone.
5. Copies of two deep horizca cross sections and a well logwhich accompany the application to the Texas Departmentof Water Resources for the Deep Disposal Well. You havea copy of this application.
6. A copy of the information packet distributed by the TexasDepartment of Water Resources to in situ uranium miningpermit applicants.
7. A copy of the similar packet t.l} ~%'Eribute for deepdisposal well applicants. @
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