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Fact csite-006

newanalysisconfirmed Carbon site timeline, from the records: county nuclear vote (2023) to state lease vote and first news (Sept 2026)

undated · csite-006 · Valar Atomics, Carbon County, Utah Trust Lands Administration

In date order, each item sourced in the fact cited: 20 Dec 2023, Carbon County adopts a public resolution backing nuclear power (csite-026); 2024, Valar's Max Ukropina says he met Carbon County and state offices (mine-018); 13 Feb 2026, Valar's 10,270-acre Green River application to BLM (mine-006); 9 Apr 2026, Trust Lands maps the SULA 2095 lease (mine-048); 20 Apr to 18 May 2026, state RDCC notice of an unnamed 'industrial' and power project, county contacted (csite-032); 22 Apr 2026, DOE's categorical exclusion for Ward 250 (csite-020); 6 May 2026, Utah's waste exemption for test-reactor waste takes effect (csite-023); 29 Jun 2026, Carbon commissioners sign a support letter, no agenda item found (mine-013); 8 Jul 2026, Trust Lands web notice naming neither applicant nor use (csite-005); 9 Jul 2026, up to $106.7 million state tax credit approved for Valar in Emery County, the company unnamed on the pre-meeting agenda (csite-024); 20 and 28 Jul 2026, Trust Lands committee meetings, no public notice found (csite-017); 7 Aug 2026, bid deadline, no competing offers (csite-005); 10 Aug 2026, first public agenda naming Valar for the site (csite-018); 19 Aug 2026, a 'Valor Atomics presentation' on the Carbon County Commission agenda, whose minutes record plans for a Price town hall but do not name the site (mine-013, csite-026); 20 Aug 2026, board hearing in Salt Lake City (mine-014); 25 Aug 2026, Energy & Minerals committee (csite-017); 12 Sep 2026, Valar Atomics Inc locates the RW 453 lode claim in Section 28 (fld-002, csite-019); 17 Sep 2026, board approves the lease (mine-011); 18 Sep 2026, first local news report (mine-041); 6 Oct 2026 (scheduled), Carbon Planning Commission hearing on Altigen's technology park (csite-012); November 2026 (planned), county code hearing on big projects (csite-013).

In plain termsPut in order, the record shows almost three years between the county's public support for nuclear power and the state's approval of the Wellington lease, with the first public document naming Valar and the site appearing only about five weeks before the vote. Five days before the vote, a mining claim two miles south was located in Valar's name, per its posted notice. No application for the next public decisions (county permits, water rights, state and federal licences) was found.

09.17.2026 TLA Board Packet (Item 10A: SULA 2095-OBA Board of Trustees Memorandum, Carbon County letter, lease map) (Utah Trust Lands Administration (Utah Public Notice Website), 2026-09-17) primary government
December 20, 2023 Commission Meeting (Carbon County Board of Commissioners minutes; scanned, read by OCR) (Carbon County (Utah Public Notice Website), 2023-12-20) primary government
NEPA Determination DOE-ID-26-005: Valar Ward250 Research Reactor (categorical exclusion B5.26) (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, 2026-04-22) primary government

verified 2026-09-29: Rebuilt 2026-09-29 from the cited facts; each date checked against a source read in this pass (memo, notices, RDCC layer, BLM layer, CX, H.B. 78, GOED notice, resident's photo) or against the cited fact. Added the 19 Aug county agenda item and the 12 Sep claim. Second check 29 Sept 2026: two items sharpened from csite-024 and csite-026. Correction 2026-09-29 (wording review): plain attributes the RW 453 location to the posted notice.

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