EPA seeks bids to clean up uranium mines in Southwest

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking proposals from small business to clean up abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation and in northwestern New Mexico.
About 140 people attended a workshop held this week in Window Rock to learn more about the $220 million project.
The EPA expects to award multiple contracts to businesses with less than 750 employees.
The funding comes from a roughly $1 billion settlement with the successor of a company that mine