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Show Chemical Incineration Hazardous to Health Continued from page 1 plete a site-specific health and safety plan before allowing work- sued the permit for TOCDF. The Division claims that those agreements are with Tooele South, of which TOCDFis a part. When questioning the Division on contingency preparedness planning, the Division responded thatit is not their responsibility to assure compliance, even though Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste regulations require that the TOCDF permit be reviewed ers to enter TOCDF.Too bad the Division of Solid and Hazardous five vears after effective date of Editor’s Note: Tireless in the quest for citizens’ opinions, editor Vernon recently ambushed a few regular folks shopping downtown, pointed a camera at them and asked: How do you feel about a proposed ban on “photocop” speed-enforcement devices? “Photocops” are a good idea because there is an awful lot of speeding that goes on in Salt Lake City. It scares me.I'm from Virginia — I think you drive recklessly here. It wouldn't upset me to get a ticket from a photocop — I wouldn’t be happy about it, but I would feel that I deserved it. I got a ticket a while back from a State Trooper — he said I ran a stop sign. I don’t rememberif I did, but if he said I did it, then I must have doneit.” Verner Utke-Ramsing Virginia “T personally don't like photocops that much, but I don’t know if I would oppose them.If they were onlyset up in schoolzones, f wouldn't have a problem with Verner Utke-Ramsing them — I have children who are grade-schoolage. I have a clean driving record — I've only had one speeding ticket in mylife. I don’tlike the idea of a photocop watching me.” Scott Hansen Salt Lake City “J don’t think there should be photocops. In someplaces radar ee — is illegal. Photocops seem like a violation of your freedom. By the B time you getthe ticket in the mail you would forget you are speeding. 1 support the Senator who # wants the photocops banned — I don’t think photocopsarecivil.” Sunnie Stobbe Prescott, Ariz. “We should definitely keep photocops. The Senator who Me wants them banned probably got My a ticket and is mad now. What theyreally needin this cityis left| hand turnsignals — it’s getting to be a big city now and we need them. I hate to drive here now.” 8. Hall Sunnie Stebbe Salt Lake City “I would rather be pulled over in person than be caught by a photocop.If they just keep them in school zones that would be okay. Just don’t speed and then you don't have to worry about sid Byron Farr Kaysville “T’ve been caught by a photocop before, but I think they're good feet to have. They help us do what we are supposed to do — as long as they are correct. I was shockedto get a ticket in the mail — it was inconvenient. However, it did | make me more conscientious of my speed. Stephen England Layton “Photocopsare a greatidea because there are too many speeding idiots going through school zones. I have little kids and I would like for there to be a photocop 4 in every school zone. People come barreling down the road at 35 mph in neighborhoods — they need to be giventickets.” Russell Mitchell Woods Cross Stephen England “] thinkit’s fine to have them in school zones because children are crossing the street. Otherwise, I don’t think they are that great.” Jenny Martin Salt Lake City “We should keep photocops. Since the photocops cameout, in the last few years, there has been a significant decrease in traffic accidents in West Valley. I did a research paper on this for my English class — I read the statistics which were from the police department which proved photocops worked in decreasing accidents.” Shaliy Dragna South Salt Lake , “The problem with the photo3 cop is that other people drive your vehicle. How do you know whowas driving at that time your car was photographed? Tickets should be based on your license, wae i a N not on your vehicle. Physical con- Shaily Dragna tact is better when issuing a ticket — the photocop seems so impersonal. The officer should stop and talk to the person whois speeding. If you just get a ticket in the mail, you don’t even remember when you were speeding. It's differentif you are pulled over with sirens.” Dizie Ence Sait Lake City ¥ 5 June 30, 1989, and have updated contingency and preparedness plans (including written statements if agreement cannot be reached). The contingency and preparedness plan are also to be developed in cooperation with the Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management, Department of Public Safety and state of Utah. This is known as the “Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Plan.” The plan is to have necessary cooperative agree- ments with the adjacent counties to the east of Tooele County for emergency support services. In March of this year, in testimony before ihe National Research Council's Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, Kari Sager,the director of the Tocele County Emergency Operation Management, stated that Utah and Sait Lake counties participate in exercises regarding the TOCDF. Upon further inquires from the chairman of the Committee about the necessary agreements, Sager responded: “Tooele County has no agreementin place with Utah or Salt Lake counties.” According to the County attorneys for Utah and Sait Lake coun- ties, as of June, there were no agreements in place. What this could mean is thatthe residents of Utah and Salt Lake counties are being held financially hostage for Tooele County emergency sup- port services without their knowledge. It could also mean that emergency support services (including equipment, personnel and hospitals), which the residents support through taxation, could becomecontaminated. The General Accounting Office report to the Senate and House of Representatives states that officials agree that in-place sheltering will be needed in chemical weaponfacilities. Assistance will be neededin all areas, andthe report acknowledges that administering the assistance would bedifficult. There were also concerns about controls to ensure that houses are property sealed. The effects of incineration on public health are known to present imminent hazards, and are largely an unavoidable risk to public health. The chemicals in the nerve and mustard agents stored at TOCDF are among the mostlethal on the planet, and release of small amounts of these Waste does not deem it necessary to do a site-specific health and safety plan for the surrogate compounds used for the surrogate trial burns of the five chemical weapons incinerators at TOCDF. It is ironic that the Division’s goals and objectives state thatits purpose is to protect Ear Piercing $1495 \ | | (including studs) Genuine Colored Stones Custom Remounting Jewelry Repair Estate Jewelry Wedding Sets | | || | ee ee ee ee ee eee Davis Edition Citizens September 5 & 6, 199 5 Hours Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 292-7261 5 Point Mall 1630 South Main Bountiful Major Credit Cards Accepted \ Cl) RUAll AG eek EW aU ins a Be ee teal human health and the environment within reasonable doubt. There are federal and state regulations which require that promulgation of performance standards, which establish the levels of environmental protection that the hazardous waste, treatment, storage and disposal facilities must achieve, and mandated the criteria against which application of the permit must be measured. This is part of the Division’s fed- COMES WITH EVERYTHING IN IT BUT THE FOOD erally mandated compliance and state regulatory requirements. The Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste claims that an independent engineer's certification Whiripool No-Frost Refrigerator for the liquid incinerater number one wasalso not needed for the Division’s approval of the surrogate trial burn, and is now claiming it will not be needed for the upcoming surrogatetrial burn for two other proposed incinerators at TOCDF. The Army andthe Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste claim that TOCDF has completed the surrogate trial burns for the liquid incinerator numberone. The following metaphor could demonstrate what this could mean: you cometo a bridge where there is a notice that reads, “Use at your ownrisk. Engineers have not assuredthe safety or design of bridge.” While this simple metaphor might be over stating the complexities of TOCDF’s five in- cinerators, it does establish the added necessary precaution and protection that the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste needs to be taking into account to assure against human expendability, now andin the future. It is unclear what documents supported the Division's decision that promulgated criteria that there was no imminent hazard to human health and the environment during the surrogate trial burn for the liquid incinerator number one. Also, what criteria were used to determine and to be maintained during the surrogate trial burns if there was neither a site-specific health and safety plan nor an independent engineer’s certification? Are weto assumethat the Division is request- ing the residents downwind of TOCDF to breath at their own risk? agents can be catastrophic. Incineration of chemical weapons releases live agents, heavy metals and other toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, through the smokestack. Dioxin is just one of the more than 1,000 chemicals to be emitted during the chemical weapons incineration process. EPAstudies havelinked incinerator-produced dioxin emissions to cause: cancer, sterility, endometriosis, birth defects, immunesystem suppression and feminization of male fetuses. On March 2, a “small” amount of nerve agent was detected outside the Johnston Atoll facility. This is the third known release of lethal waragentatthe facility. On March 14, when the governor of Alabama questioned the Army representatives about the lack of public notification of the number of low level agentreleases, Kathy Gibbs, publie affairs representative for the Army's Chemical De- Mesquite Broiled Seafood STEAKS - Mexican Food | uth282-7002 844 W. 400 N. 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