BY EMMA PENROD
After running for more than a decade on an expired state permit, the controversial White Mesa Uranium Mill in southeastern Utah is on the cusp getting a new operating license — and possibly a new job contract.
Hearings convene Thursday at state Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control offices in Salt Lake City to gather public comment on a permit renewal application the mill's owner first filed in 2007, with the possibility of issuing a completed license by year's end.
While they're at it, state regulators hope to get public input on three other issues as well...