Fasken Land and Minerals, Ltd. didn’t prove that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board erred when it rejected the company’s complaint about Waste Control Specialists’ proposed interim storage facility, so the NRC should let the rejection stick, commission staff said Monday.
Fasken’s appeal is the latest in a series of objections to the proposed site, located near Waste Control Specialists’ (WCS) existing low-level waste facility in Andrews County, Texas, and the NRC’s ruling could set the complaint on course to join several others in the D.C. circuit court of appeals.
Those complaints, lodged by environmental groups Don’t Waste Michigan, Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club, are on indefinite hold after a judge agreed to wait until the commission had come to a decision on Fasken’s appeal.
The commission had not yet responded to the company’s appeal by deadline Wednesday for Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.
The proposed WCS interim storage site is currently undergoing a federal environmental impact review. That process won’t be done until the summer, the commission has said.