Dewey-Burdock ISR Uranium Project is the Latest to Gain FAST-41 Coverage
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permitting.gov)
WASHINGTON (August 28, 2025) – The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is pleased to announce the FAST-41 coverage of the Dewey-Burdock InSitu Recovery (ISR) Uranium Project. If permitted, this critical minerals mining project is expected to support the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain with domestically produced uranium.
“The Permitting Council is excited to welcome the Dewey-Burdock ISR Uranium Project to FAST-41 coverage,” said Emily Domenech, Permitting Council Executive Director. “This project is now the 9th mining project to receive FAST-41 coverage since President Trump took office, ensuring we are working towards a stronger domestic supply chain of critical mineral resources. The Permitting Council is delivering on the President’s Executive Order on domestic mining, and we look forward to working with enCore Energy Corp to get this project to the permitting finish line.”
Located in Custer and Fall River counties in South Dakota, the Dewey-Burdock ISR Uranium Project will recover uranium from subsurface sandstone ore bodies through ISR technology. Project sponsor enCore Energy Corp previously completed significant federal review for the project and applied for FAST-41 coverage to take advantage of the predictability, transparency and accountability of the program for the remaining permitting milestones.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission serves as the lead agency for this project. Learn more about the Dewey-Burdock ISR Uranium Project on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. Learn more about the Permitting Council at permitting.gov.
About the Permitting Council and FAST-41
Established in 2015 by Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41), the Permitting Council is a federal agency charged with improving the transparency and predictability of the federal environmental review and authorization process for certain critical infrastructure projects. The Permitting Council is comprised of the Permitting Council Executive Director, who serves as the Council Chair; 13 federal agency Council members (including deputy secretary-level designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chairs of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation); and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The Permitting Council coordinates federal environmental reviews and authorizations for projects that seek and qualify for FAST-41 coverage. FAST-41 covered projects are entitled to comprehensive permitting timetables and transparent, collaborative management of those timetables on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. FAST-41 covered projects may be in the energy production, electricity transmission, energy storage, surface transportation, aviation, ports and waterways, water resource, broadband, pipelines, manufacturing, mining, carbon capture, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and machine learning, high-performance computing and advanced computer hardware and software, quantum information science and technology, data storage and data management, and cybersecurity sectors.
The Permitting Council also serves as a federal center for permitting excellence, supporting federal efforts to improve infrastructure permitting including and beyond FAST-41 covered projects to the extent authorized by law, including activities that promote or provide for the efficient, timely, and predictable completion of environmental reviews and authorizations for federally-authorized infrastructure projects.
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Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2025