Series 12695
Department of Environmental Quality. Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control Hazardous waste management regulatory records, 1960-
3.00 cubic feet and 1 microfiche set
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
See history of the records' creator.
Summary of Records
Scope and Content
These files document site-specific areas where hazardous materials are stored/located in the state of Utah. They are used by the Department to document the stabilization and/or clean-up of a specific site. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Act which governs these records is 40_CFR_300_(1990). The records are used to maintain information about hazardous material sites and monitor the levels of hazardous material at Utah facilities. It is also used to ensure that proper EPA and state laws/rules are maintained by the facilities, as governed by UCA_19-6-201-208_(1992), the Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Act.
Information includes operation and maintenance records which document long term response activities, operationand maintenance plans, monitoring agreements, sampling and analysis data, inspection reports, site close-out records, administrative records, action memoranda, administrative orders, consent orders, Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs), Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study, community relations plans, correspondence, fact sheets, work plans, site reports, health safety plans, proposed general and specific management plans, quality assurance project plans, lab billings, technical advisory information, field logs, and site note books.
The records contain background Data including disposal area type, report of engineering studies for proposed sites, plot plans and vicinity maps, engineering recommendations,future site construction, laboratory soil testing, soil sampling equipment, ground boring logs, water analysis sampling reports, geochemical studies, and geologic records of mine status. They also contain the Site Preliminary Assessment and Investigations worksheets and reports created by the Department and submitted to EPA, site photos, drawings and location maps, site inspection forms, sample analysis sheets, Hazard Ranking System (HRS) worksheets, water analysis sampling information, permitting activities; applications, report records, corrective action records and corrective action reports.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by site name, thereunder chronological.
Additional Forms
This series is available on microfilm.
Access Restrictions
Microfiche holdings require staff assistance due to fewer reference copies. Handle masters under supervision.,
These records may include protected trade secrets, though there is only a small number of records identified as such. The agency receives requested to claim trade secrets as confidential, which are reviewed by the records officer, his/her supervisor, and their legal council. If the request is approved, the records are placed in locked confidential files until they are sent to the records center. When the records are transferred , the agency will visibly mark the records so Archives employees can identify which records are considered protected. ,
Per Carlee Christofferson (ARO) confidential records will be transferred together in a single box once all records in the box has reached retention. This will make them easy to identify (9/13/2016)
Use Restrictions
These records are available for reproduction and use.
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Custody History
In FY 2019 State Archives entered into a records sharing agreement with the agency for the following boxes in Archives custody: - VB 109866 - VB 120409 - VB 176642 - VB 182203 - VB 226265 - VB 277657 The purpose of this records sharing agreement was to allow the agency to scan a high use set of records pertaining to a case in the records. A copy of the record sharing agreement is attached to this record series.
Acquisition Information
These records were acquired from the creating agency through established retention schedules.
Processing Information
Microfiche processed by Rebekkah Shaw under the National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant to the Utah State Archives and Records Services for the Utah Microfiche Backlog Project (Grant No.: NAR10-RB-50086-10). July 2010-December 2011
Related Material
Hazardous material site-specific records from the Department of Environmental Quality. Division of Environmental Response and Remediation, Series 10285, The two series document hazardous sites in the state. The only difference is that the information is being collected by two different divisions within the Department of Environmental Quality.
Indexing Terms
Container List
| Fiche-set | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1976 |