459.320 - Prerequisites to issuance of license.

459.320  Prerequisites to issuance of license.  Before a license for the processing or extraction of ores primarily for obtaining their content of source material and disposing of by-product material is issued, the Health Division of the Department of Health and Human Services shall:

      1.  Hold a hearing.

      2.  Provide a written analysis of the effect of the activity on the environment which must include:

      (a) An assessment of the radiological and nonradiological effects on the public health;

      (b) An assessment of any effect on any waterway and groundwater;

      (c) A summary of any alternatives to the activity being considered; and

      (d) A summary of the long-term effect of the activity.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 901; A 1995, 1588)