Series 10285

Department of Environmental Quality. Division of Environmental Response and Remediation


Hazardous material site-specific records, 1960-

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Schedule Description

These records document specific sites where hazardous materials are stored or located in the State of Utah; they're also used by the Division 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 (2019). These records are used to maintain information about hazardous material sites and to monitor the levels of hazardous material at Utah facilities. They're also used to ensure that proper EPA and state laws/rules are maintained by the facilities, as governed by Utah Code 19-6-2(2019), the Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Act. Records document long term operation, maintenance, and response activities, and may contain operation and 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, 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, site note books, and related correspondence. The records may also contain background data, including disposal area type, report of engineering studies for proposed sites, plot plans and vicinity maps, engineering recommendations, future site construction plans, laboratory soil testing, soil sampling equipment logs, ground boring log records, water analysis sampling reports, geochemical studies, and geologic records of mine status. Additional records may include 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, and water
analysis sampling information.

Scope and Content

These files document site-specific areas where hazardous materials are stored/located in the state of Utah. They are also 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. They include operation and maintenance records which document long term response activities and contain correspondence, operation and 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, 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 may also 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 may include 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, and water analysis sampling information.