Earlier this week, the commission adopted a resolution against federal plans to detonate 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil at the Nevada Test Site.
"Because of the potential threat to life, health and safety of Kane County residents and visitors, the [commission] opposes the Divine Strake test and other similar tests at the Nevada Test Site," reads the resolution.
Commission chairman Mark Habbeshaw said the document would be forwarded to the governor and Utah's congressional delegation.
Elsewhere in southwestern Utah, Washington County, St. George and Springdale have passed similar resolutions. Iron County could follow suit Monday.
Residents across that region fear that the non-nuclear blast could kick up contaminated radioactive dust at the test site. They worry that winds then could carry that dust to their homes, schools, parks and workplaces and cause health problems similar to those suffered decades earlier from fallout during nuclear-weapons testing in Nevada.
The government argues it needs to conduct the explosion to develop weapons capable of striking subterranean targets.
