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STATEMENT OF HEARING OFFICER
FOR PUBLIC HEARING
Thiokol Corporation DSHW TN
1995. 20835
Public Hearing to Accept Comments on a
Request to Renew the RD&D Permit
October 2, 1995
Brigham City Library
7:00 P.M.
Hearing Officer: Otis Willoughby
Ladies and Gentlemen, I call this hearing to order. This is a hearing to receive public comment on
a Draft Site Management Plan for closure of two industrial waste ponds located at M-186 on the
Thiokol Corporation facility.
This plan concerns the in-place closure of two ponds at the Thiokol Facility located in Box Elder
County, Utah. If approved, this plan would allow Thiokol to backfill the ponds with clean native
soils.
This hearing is being held under the authority of Title 19, Chapter 6, Section 104 of the Utah
Code Annotated, 1953 as amended.
My name is Otis Willoughby. I represent the Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Control Board
and have been appointed by the Executive Secretary of the Board as the hearing officer.
The public notice for this hearing and the associated public comment period was published in the
September 6, 1995 edition of the Box Elder News and Journal, The Cache Citizen , Salt Lake
Tribune, and the Deseret News. Additionally, notice of this hearing was mailed to members of the
public who in the past have indicated a desire to be notified of such activities and was broadcast
on KSL radio on September 26, 1995. The public comment period for this draft plan began on
September 6, 1995 and will conclude on October 5, 1995. Copies of the Draft Site Management
Plant have been and are available for examination and public review at: the office of the Division
of Solid and Hazardous Waste, 288 North 1460 West, Salt Lake City, Utah; and the Brigham City
Library, 26 East Forest Street, Brigham City, Utah.
Opportunity will be provided to any person desiring to participate in this hearing. Written
comments conceming the Draft Site Management Plan shall be received no later than 5:00 P.M.,
October 5, 1995 and accepted for the record. If anyone desires to make an oral comment at this
hearing, please indicate so on the attendance list.
These proceedings are being recorded and a transcript of these proceedings will be available for
public inspection at the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, 4th Floor of the Martha Hughes
Cannon Health Building.
This is an administrative hearing and as such there will be no cross examination of any
participants. Those who have questions or comments to make should state their names and direct
their questions or comments to me. I ask that you confine your remarks to the Draft Site
Management Plan and related issues and limit your remarks to 10 minutes or less. Comments that
are not pertinent may be ruled out of order.
It is the policy of the Department of Environmental Quality that this hearing remain in session for
at least one hour. If, during that hour, there comes a time when there is no one desiring to make a
comment or ask a question, the hearing will be recessed. At the end of the hour or when there is
an indication that someone would like to make a comment or ask a question, the hearing will be
reconvened and the record reopened. This hearing will then be concluded after all those who
desire to make a comment have done so.
RECESS: 7:06pm
COMMENTS
RECONVENE: 7:56pm
If there are no additional comments, this hearing will be considered closed. Any additional
written comments will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., October 5, 1995. Written comments may be
submitted in person to the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Fourth Floor of the Cannon
Health Building or they may be mailed to Dennis R. Downs, Executive Secretary, Utah Solid and
Hazardous Waste Control Board, P.O. Box 144880, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4880.
Adjourned at 8:00pm, October 2, 1995
Thiokol Corporation
Public Hearing on the
Request to Renew the RD&D Permit
Brigham City Library
October 2,1995
7:00 PM
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