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Oct 7 (expected): the Carbon County Commission's next regular meeting (first Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.); no agenda was found on the state notice site as of 2 Oct

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2026-10-07 · dir-016 · Carbon County Commission, Carbon County Planning Commission

The Carbon County Board of Commissioners' notices on the Utah Public Notice Website show regular meetings on the first and third Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. (3 and 17 June, 1 and 15 July, 19 August, 2 and 16 September 2026; the 5 August meeting was canceled), at 751 E 100 N, Price. Wednesday 7 October 2026 is the first Wednesday of October; as of 2 October 2026 no notice or agenda for it was posted. The most recent agenda, for 16 September, was posted on 10 September, six days ahead; it had no Valar, nuclear or Section 16 item and listed no public-comment period. The day before, Tuesday 6 October, is the Planning Commission. Its agenda (first posted 23 September) has one permit item, the Altigen technology park (no link to Valar was found in the records read); on 2 October it was amended to add a presentation from Valar Atomics about its proposed project in Carbon County (loc-037). Before that amendment, the only Valar item found on the Carbon County Commission and Planning Commission agendas read was the commissioners' August 19, 2026 'Valor Atomics presentation' (about its Orangeville operation, per the minutes); it did not concern the Wellington site or a permit, and no county permit application by Valar appeared in the planners' notices (csite-012). The county's rules for 'highly contested industries' are at the drafting stage, with a hearing planned for November (csite-013); under Utah Code 17-79-803 (in the version read, in effect until May 2026) an application was judged by the rules in effect when it was complete, and a conforming one approved unless the county had formally started changing them first or found a compelling, countervailing public interest (dir-014), and the Trust Lands memo describes a county conditional use permit with notice and a public hearing as part of the process for the lease; the conditional-use chapter of the county's 2023 Development Code does not require a public hearing (csite-015).

In plain termsThe county commissioners' next regular meeting should be Wednesday, October 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Price; no agenda for it was on the state notice website as of 2 October. The day before, October 6, the Planning Commission meets, and on October 2 a presentation from Valar was added to its agenda.
verified 2026-10-02: Read in late September 2026: the commissioners' notice list (every notice June-Sept 2026: all Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m., first and third of the month; 5 Aug a cancellation), the 16 Sept notice (posted 10 Sept; agenda items 1-15, none on Valar, no public comment listed) and the 6 Oct Planning Commission notice (items 1-7). 7 Oct 2026 is a Wednesday. Whether the 7 Oct meeting is held, and what is on it, is not known until the notice posts. Re-read 2 October 2026: no notice for 7 October yet (the latest is the 16 September meeting); the 6 October Planning Commission notice was amended that morning to add a Valar presentation (loc-037).

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