Scheduled Meetings
Regular meetings of the Waste Management and Radiation Control Board are normally scheduled on the second Thursday of each month at 1:30 p.m.
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Next Meeting
June 13, 2024, at 1:30 p.m.
Utah Department of Environmental Quality
Conference Room #1015
195 North 1950 West
Salt Lake City, UT
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Meeting Agenda
- Call to Order.
- Public Comments on Agenda Items.
- Declarations of Conflict of Interest.
- Approval of the meeting minutes for the May 9, 2024, Board meeting (Board Action Item).
- Petroleum Storage Tanks Update
- Administrative Rules
- Proposed changes to the Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Rules R315-321, Class VII Exploration and Production Waste Facility Requirements, and R315-322, Solid Waste Surface Impoundment Requirements, of the Utah Administrative Code (Information Item). request for a site-specific treatment variance from the Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rules. EnergySolutions seeks authorization to receive an exemption from the treatment standards for uranium extraction process residues encased in cement for macroencapsulation (Information Item).
- Approval from the Board to proceed with final adoption of proposed changes to Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Rules R315-309 and R315-310 of the Utah Administrative Code to correct rule and statutory references and language, clarify rule language, remove requirements that are no longer necessary, add some new requirements to the rules, and add language and requirements to rules as required by legislation passed by the Utah State Legislature (Board Action Item).
- Approval from the Board to proceed with formal rulemaking and public comment on proposed changes to R313-15, R313-22, R313-32, and R313-37, to incorporate federal regulatory changes made by the NRC to the federal radioactive materials regulations in 2021 (86 FR 43397, 47209, and 67839) and 2022 (87 FR 20693 and 68028). The changes are necessary to maintain regulatory compatibility with the NRC as required because Utah is an Agreement State with the NRC (Board Action Item).
- X- Ray Program.
- Approval from the Board to proceed with final adoption of proposed changes to Radiation Control Rule R313-28 of the Utah Administrative Code to add the definition of “Healing Arts” (Board Action Item).
- Approval of Mammography Imaging Medical Physicists (MIMPs) in accordance with UCA 19-3-103.1 (2)(c) of the Utah Code Annotated (Board Action Item).
- Low-Level Radioactive Waste.
- EnergySolutions request for a site-specific treatment variance from the Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rules. EnergySolutions seeks authorization to receive an exemption from the treatment standards for uranium extraction process residues encased in cement for macroencapsulation (Board Action Item).
- EnergySolutions request for a site-specific treatment variance from the Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rules. EnergySolutions seeks authorization to receive an exemption for the direct macroencapsulation treatment of lithium and lithium-ion batteries (Board Action Item).
- Hazardous Waste Section.
- Approval of Proposed Stipulation and Consent Order between the Director and Big West Oil LLC (Board Action Item).
- Clean Harbors Grassy Mountain, LLC request for a site-specific treatment variance from the Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rules to treat baghouse dust containing High Subcategory Mercury by stabilization instead of retort and recovery (Board Action Item).
- Director’s Report
- Other Business.
- Miscellaneous Information Items.
- Scheduling of the next Board meeting (July 11, 2024).
- Adjourn.