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)