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DEQ.utah.gov -Utah Department of Environmental Quality

The Official Web site of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality

Hazardous Waste Reg. & Tax Policy Legislative Task Force

The 2003 Utah Legislature passed S.B. 172 (opens in a new window), "Hazardous Waste Regulation and Tax Policy Task Force and Moratorium on Acceptance of Class B & C Radioactive Waste." Senator Curtis S. Bramble sponsored the bill.

S.B. 172 created a task force to study radioactive waste, hazardous waste, and commercial solid waste issues, including state policy and an evaluation of fees and taxes imposed on these wastes. The task force is composed of 16 members of the Legislature. The task force expires on November 30, 2004.

S.B. 172 also placed a moratorium on any acceptance of class B or C radioactive waste through February 15, 2005.

During task force meetings (opens in a new window), Department of Environmental Quality officials are asked by legislators to provide additional information.

Listed below is all of the information DEQ has supplied to the task force to date.

Table of Contents

  1. HEALTH IMPACTS

    1 - 1 Hazardous Waste
    1 - 2 Radioactive Waste
  2. GENERATORS AND DISPOSAL FACILITES

    2 - 1 Hazardous Waste Generators Hazardous Waste Facilities
    2 - 2 By Permit
    2 - 3 Commercial Facilities
    2 - 4 Demand for Hazardous Waste Disposal facilities
    2 - 5 Radioactive Material Licensees
    2 - 6 Utah Radioactive Waste Generators that accessed the Hanford site
    2 - 7 Radioactive Waste Facilities
  3. VOLUMES OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE

    3 - 1 Volumes of Class A Waste Taken to Barnwell and Richland
    3 - 2 Volume of Texas Compact States Waste Disposed at Envirocare
  4. FINANCIAL ASSURANCE

    4 - 1 Hazardous Waste
    4 - 2 Radioactive Waste
  5. FEES

    5 - 1 Hazardous Waste
    5 - 2 Radioactive Waste
    5 - 3 Clean Harbors Memo
  6. OVERSIGHT ISSUES

    6 - 1 Full-time Inspectors
    6 - 2 Groundwater Split Sampling
    6 - 3 Self-Reporting/Volumes
  7. FIELD VISITS - FACILITY OVERSIGHT SUMMARY

    7 - 1 Grassy Mountain
    7 - 2 Envirocare Hazardous Waste
    7 - 3 Envirocare Radioactive Waste
    7 - 4 ECDC
    7 - 5 Aragonite
    7 - 6 White Mesa (IUC)
  8. POTENTIAL STATUTORY CHANGES

    8 - 1 Federal or State Ownership for Perpetual Care Period
    8 - 2 Regulatory Staff needed for Class B and C Low-level Waste Repository
    8 - 3 Suspension of Applications
    8 - 4 Major Modification of Radioactive Waste Facility
    8 - 5 Analysis of Benefit and Need for New Facility
    8 - 6 Funding for Review of Applications and Modifications
  9. ENVIROCARE NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NOV)
  10. HISTORY OF SOLID WASTE AND HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILLS
  11. COMPARISON OF SIX RADIOACTIVE WASTE SITES

    11-1 West Valley, NY
    11-2 Sheffield, IL
    11-3 Beatty, NV
    11-4 Moxey Flats, KY
    11-5 Barnwell, SC
    11-6 Richland, WA
  12. UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE
    SYSTEM PROJECT GRANTSVILLE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH
  13. UPDATED VOLUMES OF BARNWELL CLASS A, B, and C RADIOACTIVE WASTE
  14. AIR QUALITY COMPLIANCE INFORMATION - CLEAN HARBORS
    ARAGONITE INCINERATOR
  15. SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPLIANCE HISTORY - CLEAN HARBORS ARAGONITE INCINERATOR
  16. LOW-LEVEL WASTE TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION
  17. DEQ PERMITTING PROCESS

    17-1 Nonhazardous Solid Waste Landfills
    17-2 Commercial Hazardous Waste Landfills and Incinerators
    17-3 Commercial Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities
  18. DEQ Response to Task Force Questions - Nov. 18, 2003
  19. Environmental Regimen and Costs to Regulate Class B and C Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLRW) (Microsoft Power Point Presentation, opens in a new window)
  20. A Performance Audit of the Department of Environmental Quality's Waste Facility Oversight (Report #2004-06)
  21. Department of Environmental Quality Response to Legislative Audit Report, dated May 12, 2004
  22. Presentation to the Hazardous Waste Regulation and Tax Policy Task Force, dated May 18, 2004, Utah Department of Environmental Quality Response to Audit Recommendations
  23. Radioactive Waste Management Plan, dated April 1994
  24. Legislative audit report: Communications to the Task Force Imply Regular Oversight of Groundwater Program
  25. Major Events in the Envirocare Licensing/Permit History
  26. Legislative audit report: Figures 4 and 5 relating to the Environmental Quality Restricted Account (EQRA)
  27. Charts:

    27-1 Spreadsheet - DEQ Environmental Quality Restricted Account (fund 107) Statement of Activity (opens in a new window)
    27-2 Chart -EQRA Revenues by Source (opens in a new window)
    27-3 Chart -Divisions of Solid and Hazardous Waste and Radiation Control Program Expenditures on Waste Oversight (opens in a new window)
  28. Map: Envirocare Section 32, Areas of waste placement and monitoring well locations, Clive, Utah (Figure 4-1)
  29. Testimony before the Hazardous Waste Regulation and Tax Policy Task Force of November 18, 2003 describing additional regulatory actions if additional resources were available
  30. Copy of August 3, 2004 Fees audit for Envirocare
  31. DEQ Recommendations - Powerpoint Presentation
  32. Closure/Post Closure
  33. Approved Groundwater Split Sampling Plan
  34. Building Block (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
  35. DRC Building Blocks (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
  36. DEQ Fee Collections - FY 03 and FY 04 (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
  37. OVERSIGHT PROGRAM FOR COMMERCIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES
  38. OVERSIGHT OF COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES

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