DRC-2022-022859 - 0901a0688112148d

Department of Environmental Quality Kimberly D. Shelley Executive Director State of Utah
SPENCER J. COX Governor
DIVISION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RADIATION CONTROL
DEIDRE HENDERSON Lieutenant Governor
Douglas J. Hansen Director
MEMORANDUM
TO:Phil Goble
FROM:Dean Henderson b, '3 / -z El 2-Q.. M
DATE:
SUBJECT:
June 3, 2022
2022 Annual Seeps and Springs Monitoring Event, Field Inspection and Split Sampling
Groundwater Discharge Permit No. UGW370004
Energy Fuels Resources (USA), Inc.
White Mesa Uranium Mill, near Blanding, Utah
This is a Utah Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control ("Division") staff summary on the
inspection of the 2020 Annual Seeps and Springs Monitoring event ("2022 Event") that was conducted on May
10, 2022, at the Energy Fuels Resources (USA), Inc. ("EFRI") White Mesa Uranium Mill, near Blanding, Utah.
The 2022 Event was inspected against the following enforcement documents:
•The EFRI Quality Assurance Plan ("QAP") September 10, 2019 (Revision. 7 .6)•Groundwater Discharge Permit No. UGW370004 ("Permit"). Permit version that was signed on March
8, 2021. •Sampling Plan for Seeps and Springs In the Vicinity of the White Mesa Uranium Mill. Revision 2. July8, 2016 ("Sampling Plan").
Summary of Inspection
EFRI informed the Division in a letter dated March 30, 2022, that EFRI would be sampling the seeps and
springs on May 10, 2022 ("Letter"). The Letter from EFRI provided notice prior to sampling as required in
Section 3 of the Sampling Plan. In Section 2.1 of the Sampling Plan EFRI is required to sample annually the
seeps and springs between May 1 and July 15 each year; therefore, the May 10, 2022, sampling date meets this
requirement.
On May 10. 2022 Division staff (Dean Henderson and Phil Goble) observed the EFRI staff (Tanner Holliday
and Deen Lyman) sample Cottonwood Spring, Entrance Spring, and Ruin Spring (see photographs in Figures 1,
2 and 3 in attachment 1 below). The Division staff split a water sample with the EFRI from Cottonwood
Spring.
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