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State of Utah

GARY HERBERT Governor GREG BELL Lieutenant Governor
Department of
Environmental Quality
Amanda Smith Executive Director DIVISION OF SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE Scott T. Anderson Director

Solid and Hazardous Waste Control Board Kevin Murray, Chair Dennis Riding, Vice-Chair Eugene Cole, DrPH Jeff Coombs, MPH, LEHS Mark Franc Brett Mickelson
Amanda Smith Shane Whitney Dwayne Woolley Scott T. Anderson Executive Secretary

May 16, 2013

George Gooch, Manager
ATK Environmental Services ATK Launch Systems – Promontory
P.O. Box 707
Brigham City, UT 84302-0707

RE: Missing Flares, Kosmo Test Range ATK Launch Systems – Promontory Facility
UTD009081357

Dear Mr. Gooch:
This letter is in response to the Kosmo Test Range Emergency Permit Reports that ATK has been
submitting to the Division since July 2006. The Division has requested that ATK submit these
“follow-up” reports in order to record information regarding the treatment of flares that fail to
deploy as designed during testing. Based on the information that has been provided, there are a
number of these defective flares at the test range that ATK has been unable to recover.
ATK considers flares that have not deployed as designed to be reactive hazardous waste. ATK
has maintained that these partially or completely unburned flares are too dangerous to collect and
remove to ATK’s RCRA permitted open burning grounds. To address this issue, ATK has
requested emergency permits from the Division in order to treat the flares in place by open burning once they are located.

ATK has provided information on its efforts to recover some of the missing flares in the follow-up
reports. However, the Division requests that ATK provide the following additional information:

• What is the total number of flares that have not been recovered and treated?
• Where are the missing flares thought to be? Please provide a map showing these
locations and the test range boundaries.
• What is the status of the land (ownership, under lease, etc.) where the missing flares
are thought to be located?
• Is there public access to the locations of the missing flares?

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• What is ATK’s plan to recover the missing flares?

Please submit this information to the Division at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions, please call Jeff Vandel at [phone].

Sincerely,

Scott T. Anderson, Director
Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste

STA/JV/tjm
c: Jason Wells, ATK Launch Systems
Jennifer Sullivan, Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands
Grant Koford, EHS, Environmental Health Director, Bear River Health Department