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In 2013, a DEQ feasibility study estimated that it would cost Wyoming at least $4.5 million and 1o new staff to take over regulation of uranium and thorium mining. [33] The mining industry has pushed the state to take over, saying the Nuclear Regulatory Commission charges too much and moves too slowly. [33]
Buffalo Bill Dam with Shoshone Powerplant at right. The Shoshone Project is an irrigation project in the U.S. state of Wyoming.The project provides irrigation for approximately 107,000 acres (430 km 2) of crops in the Big Horn Basin, fulfilling the vision of local resident and developer Buffalo Bill Cody, who hoped to make the semi-arid basin into agricultural land.
Ogden Driskill (born July 24, 1959) [1] [2] is a Republican member of the Wyoming Senate, representing the 1st district [3] since 2011. Senate District 1 is the largest [4] in Wyoming in geographic terms. He is a member of the Wyoming Senate Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce, Wyoming Gaming Commission, State Building Commission Liaison, Energy Council ...
The Wyoming Public Service Commission is a public utilities commission, a quasi-judicial tribunal, which regulates natural gas, electric, telecommunications, water, and pipeline services in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
Each state description also lists various statutory authorities, commissions, corporations, and other forms of organizations that have certain governmental characteristics, but are subject by law to administrative or fiscal control by the state or by independent local governments; therefore, they are classified as subordinate agencies of those ...
Impounded by Fontenelle Dam, the reservoir acts primarily as a storage reservoir for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Storage Project, retaining Wyoming water in the state as a means of asserting Wyoming's water rights, with a secondary purpose of power generation. Water from Fontenelle Reservoir is used in local industries such ...
Water Resources Development Act of 1988 (WRDA 1988), Pub. L. 100–676, is a public law passed by Congress on November 17, 1988 concerning water resources in the United States in the areas of flood control, navigation, dredging, environment, recreation, water supply, beach nourishment and erosion.
The Yellowstone River Compact is an interstate compact that was entered into by Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming and ratified in 1950 for the purpose of providing for an equitable division and apportionment of the waters of the Yellowstone River and its tributaries, encouraging mutually beneficial development and use of the Yellowstone River Basin's waters, and furthering intergovernment ...