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Utah House backs resolution urging EPA to consider removal and reprocessing options for Sharon Steel tailings
Summary
The House adopted HCR 9 after a committee-of-the-whole hearing in which city and state health officials described about 13.5 million tons of hazardous tailings at the Midvale Sharon Steel site and urged the EPA to evaluate alternatives to capping, including removal and on-site reprocessing.
The Utah House on Jan. 26 adopted a concurrent resolution asking federal regulators to consider all viable remediation options for the Sharon Steel tailings near Midvale, after a committee-of-the-whole hearing that featured testimony from local elected officials and state health staff.
Representative Melvin R. Brown introduced HCR 9 and moved that the House resolve itself into the committee of the whole so members could hear from Mayor Everett Dahl and Ken Alkimer, director of the Division of Environmental Health. Everett Dahl told members the EPA has completed initial work and “we have about 13 and a half million ton of hazardous waste in the Sharon Steel…
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