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Senate advances Energy Solutions landfill resolution amid oversight questions

Utah Senate · January 25, 2021
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The Senate advanced SJR7, approving Energy Solutions’ request for a Class 6 landfill at its Clive facility. Senators asked how waste streams will be sorted, whether higher-level radioactive material will be segregated, and whether legislative approval is occurring before scientific and public processes are complete.

The Utah Senate on Monday moved SJR7 forward, a joint resolution approving Energy Solutions’ request to construct and operate a Class 6 landfill for nonhazardous solid waste at the company’s Clive facility in Tooele County.

Sponsor Sen. Sandell told colleagues the request addresses a stream of construction and decommissioning debris — concrete and rubble — that can be safely handled as Class 6 waste rather than occupying space in licensed…

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