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Show CACS4101 exf 'nm . Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live Volume 91, No. 45 10 pages Single Copy Price 500 Wednesday, November 10, 1993 CAHWP enters comments on EPA and NRP with state By Myrna Trauntvein s Correspondent The Citizens for Appropriate plan with community emergency operations as well as on- Times-New- site emergencv ODerations plan," the CAHWP executive Hazard Waste Placement (CAHWP) have entered comments in regard to EPA (Environmental Protection committee said. The CAHWP comment Agency) Region VIII vs. Nephi Rubber Products (NRP), sensitive populations that lie within potentially affected areas such as TRAIL Inc., a sheltered workshop; nursing homes; hospitals; daycares; and schools. "Also, the plan should incorporate these sensitive populations in the event of an upset condition where there could be even a minimal risk to the community and should also provide for an emergency evacuation of the aforementioned groups," wrote the Nephi. The CAHWP comment document was delivered by the Executive Committee to the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste and was stamped "hand delivered" by that committee on October e 14th. The document is entitled, "A CAHWP Comment, EPA Region VIII VS. Nephi Rubber Products Located in Nephi City Industrial Park, Nephi, Ut," by Executive of CAHWP Committee (Citizens for Appropriate Hazard Waste Placement, on October 14, 1993. In the CAHWP comment by the citizen group which was formed to protest the siting of the proposed EnviroChem facility in the Nephi City Industrial Park, the executive committee has explained the problem the group has with the development of a contingency plan which would affect NRP. "In recent months', CAHWP has been working diligently, through local government officials and the State Director of .the . Department of Public Safety to bring about compliance within our district to the SARA Title III and 'CommuAct,"' nity states the comment entered by the group. 'We believe that mandated compliance from NRP under the EPCRA is a vital first step in providing a model to other waste generators within this community to come into compliance," continued the comment document. "We believe, however, that all of the EPCRA be implemented with control belonging two-pag- While the snow is not on the ground yet, the cold air of the last week produced the ice on the fence north of Nephi when sprinklers were left on over night. The weathermen on the tube are predicting that we will some have probably snow on the ground before the week is up. $ Nephi City will close the old city dump east of immediately, take refuse to new dump west of town council says 1--15 By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- - Correspondent Nephi City will close the waste dump site immediately. At city council meeting on Tuesday, the council agreed, to s 'the closure.-- 1 - "" "Users ' haveabuied 'the privilege," said Nephi Mayor Robert Steele. Everything which used to be allowed to be hauled to the old waste dump or "junk yard" as it was known locally, will now be taken to the regular land fill site used the city. The gate will.be closed, by taken to the landfill nor dumped in the city sewers and residents know that. They dont know how to get rid of them, he said. They.will still not collect, pesticides, 'said McKnight. The company will take the responsibility for anything it collects, he said. EnviroChem collects such chemicals as a routine part of its business now though it is not yet located in the area and the facility planned for Nephi is still in the permitting process. Council members also want to know if federal and state laws supersede city laws and ordinances. Council members directed Eyre to seek an opinion from the state attorney general's office and from state offices dealing with such issues and to prepare his own interpretation of the law. "We would like to see how they all line up," said Harmon. Citizens of Nephi cannot park trailers, broken down autos, and unlicensed vehicles on city streets. The city ordinance states that nothing can be parked on a city street longer than 72 hours, said Don Eyre Jr. Two residents in Nephi, lo- Nephi City Council members directed the city attorney to address several legal concerns the council has about the city industrial park at Tuescated in two separate parts of day's meeting. Don Eyre Jr, city attorney, town, had complained to council members that vehicles were was asked to look into the lecouncil and let the issues parked and left on city streets. gal know the outcome at a future They take up room in the front of personal property and are a meeting. "If a business is a legitimate bother, to the concerned propbusiness and operates under erty owners. the law, does the city council "Nothing can be parked which blocks a driveway or have the right to tell the business whether or not it can hydrant," said Eyre. come to the city?" asked Milton Such vehicles also are a Harmon, council member and problem for snow removal, said Chad Bowles, city police chief. himself an attorney. "If the state or federal govHowever, he suggested, the ernment provides controls and council and others who have a has restrictions which govern problem with parked vehicles the business does the city have call the police department. "Let us handle it on a a right to impose more restrictive ordinances?" asked Chad basis," he said. The ordicouncil member. makes it possible to nance Bowles, city If the legitimate .business is ticket violators. Bowles said he willing to pay the same price prefers to give warnings to those who might not underfor land and meet the city requirements for( ownership, stand the ordinance. does the city have the right to . Council members agreed refuse the prospective busithey still have concerns about tractor trailer units which are ness? wondered council members. parked on city streets. Some of City council members are these units block vision for mostly concerned with the city drivers. "We need to figure out a industrial park and the way the park can be governed. place where they can park and The council also wonders if have security, said Steele. the involvement of federal However, he said, he quesmoney in a project changes the tioned whether Nephi should be in the businesses of providway potential business owners are screened by the city or not ing such security. The truck "Can we apply city ordidrivers were residents of hazardous wast6 recycling nances to state highways?" Vephi making a living. asked Harmon. Nephis Main Scott Nelson wants to put plant in the Nephi area. Street is controlled by the small gum and candy maRandy McKnight, city administrator, said city employ- state highway department as a chines in the city and county state highway. Who can pass buildings. ees at city offices have received "I am starting a small vendcalls on what residents should ' laws to restrict the use of city do with household chemicals. streets, the state, the city? ing business," he said. The machines are the small round If a legitimate business opThey wan. to know what they or square topped machines erates in our town, can a citishould do with .used antifreeze and other chemicals, he zen referendum vote shut it which hold visible items in a down or keep it from coming to ball on a stem which is said. weighted. The State Health Depart- town?" asked Harmon. The machines are found in What about policing? Who ment has been contacted about what to do to dispose of some should be responsible and who the fronts of many stores, he of these items, said McKnight makes the ordinances covering said. Neither the city nor county Many of the times cannot be these issues? . agreed council members. This posts a problem which must be worked out as to a way to leave the rifle range, which uses the same access road, open and still keep the old dump closed;- , "It never has been a landfill site," said Randy McKnight, city administrator. "We will need to clean up the site as best we can." However, some of the old concrete which has been hauled to the area in the past will need to be left until it is needed for rip rap by the city, he said. It may be needed in the future for flood control. Builders may be encouraged to haul top soil to the area but the lawn clippings, yard waste, and construction debris hauled to the area in the past' will no longer be allowed uses. "Everything will now have to go to the landfill," said Steele. In other business before the Nephi City Council: A household chemical disposal day is being planned by the Nephi City Council. Once a day is derided upon, the event will receive the needed advertising to make it successful, agreed council members. "EnviroChem has agreed they will pick up household chemicals on that day," said Nephi Mayor Robert Steele. "It is really good of them. The pick-u- p day will come before EnviroChem builds a g and proposed one-on-o- ne Right-to-Kno- machines. The city will allow the machines as long as there is not a lot of debris. Commission discusses creating position to work with 4-- H in Eureka wrote. The citizen group formally requested the DSHW hold a public hearing in Nephi to de- w fine "waste minimization." "CAHWP requests that public hearing be Agency), DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality), NRP, and the citizens of Nephi City," wrote the committee. By Myrna Trauntvein Correspondent Eureka has few people who proparticipate in the gram. The East Juab County area has a lot of young people who participate. One difference, said Ike Lunt, commission chairman, is that Eureka has no one in the community who is connected closely with "The state has suggested hiring someone in Eureka to work said Lunt. with the to would like "They bring more people into the program." He said it had been suggested Juab County might pay some of the funds to hire a part time person to make the program work in the community. "The state will give $1,000," he said. The county will have to wait until the new budget year, agreed commissioners. On the motion of Gordon Young, commissioner, they agreed, however, to place the item in The document said the executive committee thought the development of a contingency plan should include a site plan, a list of compounds on the site, and the quantity and quality of compounds. "It should also provide a contingency H on-si- this accom- plished with an extension of the public comment period," the committee wrote in the comment document. In considering this request, said committee members, the DSHW should be aware that the public comment period opened on September 15, 1993, but the public record was not delivered to the citizens of Nephi until approximately September 30. "The unavailability of these documents to the Nephi citizens made it impossible to evaluate the information in a timely fashion. Therein lies the reason that CAHWP is requesting the extension lof the public comment period," read the document. to Region VIII EPA (Environmental Protection Times-New- s 4-- tion and should address the need and availability of trained personnel to respond to a potential upset condition in a quick and accurate manner. '"CAHWP enthusiastically supports waste minimization," commented the committee in the document. We also believe that the state of Utah, DEQ, and DSHW (Department of Solid and Hazardous Waste) have not encouraged nor enforced this important alternative to waste generation," they blending having the machines, he said. "You would get about $20 to $40 per year," he said. The money would be just the right amount for a charity do-- , J . . nation, he said. The county agreed he could put the machines in the county building on a trial basis. The city council also agreed the machines could go in the city building, however, the city placed a one month trial on the -- committee. CAHWP suggested the plan should assess the facility's liability to the community-at-ris- k for air quality violations and ground and water contamina- fuels-- would make much money from en- tered also stated the plan should take into consideration and recognize the potentially te School district will enlarge a classroom trailer used as preschool unit 4-- 4-- By Myrna Trauntvein s Correspondent Juab School District board members agreed to a plan to enlarge a classroom trailer used as a unit The disabled is held in the unit and there are several improvements which are needed in order to make the area more conducive the assignment it has. We have needed improvements for some time now, said Superintendent Kirk Wright. Clark Wood, husband of the teacher, Merrian Wood is a contractor, said Superintendent Wright. He designed the specs for the addition to the classroom and then the district sent out an invitation to bid on those specs. Wood won the right to do the remodeling and building work. 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