By the time the Senate and House gaveled in shortly after 9 a.m., legislators had already passed 365 bills and resolutions this year. The session must end by midnight Friday.
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The Mexican Hat Disposal Cell holds radioactive material from a uranium mill located nearby which operated from 1957 to 1965, and from another uranium mill site 15 miles southwest, near Monument Valley.
Utah lawmakers want Congress to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA. It’s a federal program meant to help those suffering the effects of nuclear testing or uranium mining.
RECA is set to expire in 2022, despite ongoing radiation exposure and hundreds of pending claims.
“It’s not an old, dead issue now,” Owens said. “There are still ongoing claims. There’s probably thousands of people out there who don’t know they have a claim yet or who should be entitled to compensation.”
Helen Nez in her home in Blue Gap, Ariz. Image by Mary F. Calvert. United States, 2020.
Helen Nez was just a child when men from the mining companies asked her to carry around a small device that detects uranium while she was herding sheep near her home in Blue Gap, Ariz. When the device went off, she would put a stake in the ground at that location. The mining companies used the local Navajo people to detect the location of the uranium. All those stakes in the ground became the Claim 28 uranium mine site. She grew up a half mile from the mine.
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