September 12, 2024 Agenda: Waste Management and Radiation Control Board

Meeting Agenda

1. Call to Order and Roll Call.
2. Public Comments on Agenda Items.
3. Declarations of Conflict of Interest.
4. Approval of the meeting minutes for the July 11, 2024 Board meeting (Board Action Item).
5. Petroleum Storage Tanks Update.
6. Administrative Rules.
   1. Five-Year Review of R311-500 Illegal Drug Operations Site Reporting and Decontamination Act, Decontamination Specialist Certification Program (Board Action Item). 
   2. Approval from the Board to proceed with final adoption of proposed changes to Utah Administrative Code 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 and 2022. 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).
7. Low-Level Radioactive Waste.
   1. EnergySolutions, LLC request for a one-time, site-specific treatment variance from the Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rules.  EnergySolutions seeks authorization to dispose, in EnergySolutions’ Mixed Waste Landfill Cell, waste containing the D009 and/or U151 High Mercury-Organic Subcategory and High Mercury-Inorganic Subcategory hazardous waste codes that have been treated using stabilization/amalgamation technologies (Information Item).
   2. EnergySolutions, LLC request for a one-time site-specific treatment variance from Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rule R315-268-40(a)(2).  EnergySolutions seeks authorization for the macroencapsulation of radiologically contaminated silver pieces that are less than 60mm (2.4 inches) in any direction to be managed as debris at the EnergySolutions LLC, Mixed Waste Facility (Information Item).
   3. EnergySolutions, LLC request for a one-time, site-specific treatment variance from Utah Hazardous Waste Management Rule R315-268-40(a)(3).  EnergySolutions seeks authorization to macroencapsulate and dispose in EnergySolutions’ Mixed Waste Landfill Cell, waste containing high concentrations of arsenic that cannot be treated to the specified treatment standard (Information Item).
8. Hazardous Waste Section.
   1. Approval of Proposed Stipulation and Consent Order between the Director and PPC Flexible Packaging LLC (Board Action Item).
9. Director’s Report
10. Other Business.
    1. Miscellaneous Information Items.
    2. Scheduling of next Board meeting (October 10, 2024).
11. Adjourn.