VANCOUVER, B.C. - Powertech Uranium Corp. announced Dec. 2 that all baseline studies for its Centennial Project west of Nunn are scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2008.

The studies for the company's proposed uranium mining operation include radiation data collection, air monitoring, groundwater sampling, surface water sampling, soil sampling, vegetation analysis and noise surveys. Approximately 80 percent of the tasks required to complete the Environment Report and the Class III UIC permit have been completed, the company said.

Cultural resource surveys have been completed and review by an independent peer is under way. A positive feasibility study has been completed by an independent contractor on the use of deep disposal injection wells for the project's well land and well field waste streams, the report added.

The company now intends to submit permit applications for an in-situ recovery operation to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Department of Natural Resources and Weld County in the first half of 2009.

Powertech also released progress details on its Dewey-Burdock Project in Fall River and Custer counties in South Dakota.