The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project recently hosted U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy of Utah and Grand County Commission Chair Bill Winfield for a tour of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) cleanup site.
June 11, 2025
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Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project staff gather with U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy of Utah, third from left, and Grand County Commission Chair Bill Winfield, far right, at the Moab Project site rail bench overlook. Haul trucks carry sealed steel containers of uranium mill tailings at the Moab Project up to the hillside rail bench where they are loaded on train cars and transported 30 miles north to the disposal cell at the Crescent Junction site.
Congressman Kennedy, Grand County Commissioner Winfield Visit Moab Project
MOAB, Utah ― The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project recently hosted U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy of Utah and Grand County Commission Chair Bill Winfield for a tour of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) cleanup site.
EM Moab Project staff provided the visitors with an overview presentation of the project, explaining the origins of the site and how it came to contain an estimated 16-million-ton uranium mill tailings pile. The staff members also detailed cleanup efforts for contaminated groundwater and placement of the tailings and other contaminated materials — called residual radioactive materials — in the Moab Project’s disposal cell near Crescent Junction, Utah.
Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project staff and with U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy’s office in the Moab site well field.
In April, Kennedy co-sponsored new legislation with Utah Sen. John Curtis titled the Moab UMTRA Project Transition Act of 2025, which seeks to transfer the Moab Project site property to Grand County once cleanup is complete.
As the Moab Project moves closer to cleanup completion, EM continues to collaborate with local stakeholders to plan for the future of the Moab Project site.
“We were thrilled to welcome the congressman to our project,” Moab Federal Project Cleanup Director Matthew Udovitsch said. “There’s no better way to grasp the scope of our cleanup efforts and develop an appreciation for the Moab property than experiencing it firsthand.”
-Contributor: Barbara Michel