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Tooele Army Depot (TEAD), Part B Permit
The Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) is located in north-central Utah. TEAD is located in the Tooele Valley approximately two miles south of the city of Tooele and 35 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on about 27,000 acres of land. Approximately, 400 people work at TEAD including 15 military and 385 civilian workers.
The mission of TEAD is conventional ammunition storage, maintenance and demilitarization. One thousand and twenty-eight acres of the Depot were transferred in December 1998 to the Tooele Redevelopment Agency under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program. It was one of the first to be transferred nationwide under the early transfer option of Section 334 of Public Law 104-201.
Currently, TEAD has Hazardous Waste Storage, Incineration, Subpart X Munitions Process and Open burn and open Detonation Permit. (not the official copy)
The Compliance History for TEAD lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
Tooele Army Depot Environmental phone number is 1-435-833-3235.
The Open Burn/Open Detonation operation is current under interim permit status (RCRA Part A has been submitted). Currently, there are 58 active Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) at TEAD.
The TEAD's Part B Permit
- Title Page
- Definitions
- Module I. Standard Permit Conditions
- Module II. General Facility Conditions
- Module III. Storage in Containers
- Module IV Incineration
- Module V Miscellaneous Munitions Processing Operations
- Module VI Open Burn and Open Detonation (OB/OD)
- Attachment 1 -- General Facility Description
- Attachment 2 -- Waste Analysis Plan
- Attachment 3 -- Security Procedures
- Attachment 4 -- Inspection Plan
- Attachment 5 -- Training Plan
- Attachment 6 -- Preparedness and Prevention Plan
- Attachment 7 -- Contingency Plan
- Attachment 8 -- Closure Plan
- Attachment 9 -- Containers
- Attachment 10 -- APE 1236 Drawings
- Attachment 11 -- Incinerator Shut Down Procedures
- Attachment 12 -- Particulate Generation Factors
- Attachment 13 -- Process Control Equipment
- Attachment 14 -- System Description
- Attachment 15 -- Continuous Emissions Monitor System (CEMS)
- Attachment 16 -- Open Burning/Open Detonation Operation
- Attachment 16A -- Air Dispersion Modeling for OB/OD
- Attachment 16B -- Human Health Risk Assessment for OB/OD
- Attachment 17 -- Risk Management Plan OB/OD
- Attachment 17a --OB/OD Air Modeling
- Attachment 17 b --OB/OD Human Health Risk Assessment
- Attachment 17c -- OB/OD Ecological Risk Assessment
- Attachment 18 -- reserved
- Attachment 19 -- QAPP Plan
- Attachment 19b--Sampling and Analysis Plans
- Attachment 19c--SSSHP
- Attachment 22 -- Small Caliber Disassembly Line Drawings
- Attachment 23 -- reserved
- Attachment 24 – Hydrolysis System Description
- Attachment 25 – Hydrolysis System Drawings
- Attachment 26 – Hydrolysis System Instrument List
Comments or Questions
For more information, please contact either Rick Page or David McCleary (801-536-0200).

