The Navajo Nation continues work on a five-year plan to address uranium contamination on the reservation.

Along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the tribe has assessed 199 structures, completed 14 replacement homes and removed ten yards of contaminated soil since 2007. The goal is to assess and remediate at least 500 structures by the end of 2012, an EPA official said.

Overall, the tribe and the EPA have identified 520 mines as high-risk. The tribe wants all of them to be cleaned up.

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Navajo Nation adopts five-year plan for uranium cleanup (The Cibola Beacon 9/20)

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