(United States Fourth Circuit) - In a uranium miner's challenge to the Virginia General Assembly's ban on uranium mining 'until a program for permitting uranium mining is established by statute,' Va. Code Ann. section 45.1-283, the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is affirmed where the federal Atomic Energy Act (AEA), or 42 U.
S.
C. sections 2011,2014(z), does not preempt state regulation of conventional uranium mining.
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