Skull Valley Indian Reservation

The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is the Goshute Indian reservation located approximately 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The reservation is comprised of 28.187 square miles (73.004 km²) of land in east central Tooele County, adjacent to the southwest side of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. A population of 31 persons resided on its territory as of the 2000 census. It is the site of a proposed temporary storage facility for used nuclear fuel (sometimes also referred to as radioactive waste), causing much controversy among some Goshute Native Americans, some of Utah's government officials and many local advocacy groups. The facility was licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but the U.S Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management refused to give the permission needed for the facility to operate.

On April 12, 1968, several thousand sheep in Skull Valley were killed by VX gas released in a test from the nearby Dugway Proving Ground [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Feds finally admit that nerve agent was found near 1968 sheep kill | date=1998 | publisher= | url =http://lists.jammed.com/IWAR/1998/01/0004.html | work =Salt Lake Tribune | pages = | accessdate = 2007-12-07 | language = ] . Dugway and Skull Valley have also been featured in "The Andromeda Strain", "Outbreak" and "Species".

ee also

*State Route 196
*Dugway sheep incident
*Cedar Mountain Wilderness
*Nuclear Nebraska

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* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CHECK_SEARCH_RESULTS=N&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-tree_id=4001&-redoLog=true&-all_geo_types=N&-transpose=N&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=label&-geo_id=25000US3840&-search_results=25000US1340&-format=&-_lang=en&-show_geoid=Y Skull Valley Reservation, Utah] , United States Census Bureau
* [http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/scitech/volume71/gross.pdf Nuclear Native America]