Utah Waste Management and Radiation Control Board Holds April Meeting

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On April 14, 2016, the Utah Waste Management and Radiation Control Board held a regularly scheduled meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. MT in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The meeting, which was open to the public, was held in Conference Room 1015, Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Board Room, on the first floor of the Multi Agency State Office Building that is located at 195 North 1950 West in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The following items, among others, were on the agenda for the April 2016 Board meeting:

  1. Call to Order
  2. Approval of Meeting Minutes for the March 10, 2016 Board Meeting (Board Action Item)

III.    Underground Storage Tanks Update

  1. Administrative Rules
  2. Final Adoption of Proposed Changes to Hazardous Waste Rules R315-103, R315-124, R315-260, R315-261, R315-262, R315-263 R315-264, R315-265, R315-266, R315-268, R315-270, and R315-273 and setting of an effective date (Board Action Item)
  3. Final Adoption of the Repeal of Hazardous Waste Rules R315-1, R315-2, R315-3, R315-4, R315-5, R315-6, R315-7, R315-8, R315-9, R315-12, R315-13, R315-14, R315-16, and R315-50 and setting of an effective date (Board Action Item)
  4. Approval to Proceed with Formal Rulemaking and a 30-day Public Comment Period for Amendments to the Hazardous Waste Rules R315-124, R315-260, R315-261, R315-262, R315-264 and R315-273 (Board Action Item)
  5. Approval to Proceed with Formal Rulemaking and a 30-day Public Comment Period for Proposed Changes to Radiation Control Rules R313-19 and R313-22 to Incorporate Changes Requested by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) (Board Action Item)
  6. Low-Level Radioactive Waste Section
  7. EnergySolutions’ Request for a Site-Specific Treatment Variance from the Hazardous Waste Management Rules—i.e., EnergySolutions Seeks Authorization to Dispose of One, 5-Gallon Bucket of Spent Lithium-Thionyl Chloride Batteries Following Macroencapsulation (Board Action Item)
  8. EnergySolutions’ Request for a Site-Specific Treatment Variance from the Hazardous Waste Management Rules—i.e., EnergySolutions Seeks Authorization to Dispose of High Concentration Arsenic Waste Following Macroencapsulation (Board Action Item)
  9. Director’s Report

VII.   Other Business

  1. Miscellaneous Information Item
  2. Scheduling of Next Board Meeting

VIII.  Adjourn

The Board—which is appointed by the Utah Governor with the consent of the Utah Senate—guides development of Radiation Control policy and rules in the state.  The Board holds open meetings ten times per year at locations throughout the state.  A public comment session is held at the end of each meeting.

Copies of the Utah Waste Management and Radiation Control Board meeting agendas and packet information can be found at http://www.deq.utah.gov/boards/waste/meetings.htm.

For additional information, please contact Rusty Lundberg, Deputy Director of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, at (801) 536-4257 or at rlundberg@utah.gov.