ST. GEORGE — It will take the National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office at least three to four weeks to go through the 10,000 or so comments the agency received concerning the draft environmental assessment for Divine Strake.

Divine Strake, the name for a 700-ton fuel oil and ammonium nitrate bomb test, is not nuclear, but the site of the proposed test is only a mile away from where nuclear testing was conducted at the Nevada Test Site during the Cold War

Last year, the NNSA withdrew its Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) related to the environmental assessment for the test. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency had scheduled the test for June 2 but postponed the test following questions from Congressman Jim Matheson and others over health and safety concerns.

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“We’ve never had such a big response to an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement,” Kevin Rohrer, spokesman with NNSA/NSO said.