{"id":6687,"date":"2012-03-01T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:24:02","slug":"changes-to-uranium-mining-permits-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=6687","title":{"rendered":"Changes to uranium mining permits passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A streamlined permit process for in-situ mining operations was passed by the Legislature March 1.<\/p>\n<p>LB498, introduced by Ellsworth Sen. LeRoy Louden, establishes regulations related specifically to in-situ mining, which is a method of extracting uranium deposits from underground. Oxidized groundwater is injected into boreholes and dissolves the uranium for removal.<\/p>\n<p>The bill allows for a permit amendment to increase the daily peak withdrawal or annual volume to levels authorized under a state Department of Environmental Quality permit.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A streamlined permit process for in-situ mining operations was passed by the Legislature March 1. LB498, introduced by Ellsworth Sen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-leroy-louden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9907,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}