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Show a Autoclave construction at burn plant to begin soon prehensive. We hope to have it in about 30 days." The regulations are being drawn up by Davis County Environmental Health Director Richard Harvey with the help of a recently formed subcommittee assigned to the task-Bitter task-Bitter said the regulations will apply to the BFI plant planned for North Salt Lake as well as any infectious in-fectious waste treatment facility in . the county. By SCOTT SUMM ER1LL LAYTON-Davis County should be processing infectious waste in three to four months at the Davis County Solid Waste Management and Energy Recovery Special Service Ser-vice District's (SWMERS) autoclave facility to be built next to the burn plant. SWMERS Director LeGrande Bitter said the opening should go as scheduled if nothing happens to slow things down. However, the state has yet to give its approval for the plant, plans for the plant have yet to be drafted and there is still no policy and procedural standards guide in place. Bitter said SWMERS is moving ahead to get the engineer's drawings draw-ings for the autoclave, and construction construc-tion will begin as soon as the plans are in hand. " It will take about five weeks to get the drawings," he said. "Then about two months for construction to be completed. " The go-ahead from the state should present no problem, according accor-ding to Bitter, except that they have no guidelines lo follow. "This has never been done before in Utah," Bitter said. "(State officials) just have nothing to compare it with." 4 The final, and possibly most complex obstacle for the infectious waste treatment facility, is the development de-velopment of adequate regulations for the plant. Even if all other aspects are taken care, the autoclave cannot begin operation until the regulations are accepted and placed on the books. "There is a document of this type in place in Salt Lake," Bitter said. "But, ours will be much more com- |