The Commercial/Federal Facilities Section is tasked with the following six commercial facilities and three federal facilities. The section is responsible for issuing and maintaining treatment and storage permits, conducting compliance evaluation inspections, providing oversight during corrective action, and when applicable, ensuring that the facilities are properly closed.
Aragonite is a commercial incinerator, transfer, and storage facility located in a remote area of Tooele County, Utah. It was formerly known as Safety-Kleen (Aragonite) Inc., Laidlaw Environmental Services (Aragonite), Inc. and Aptus, Inc. The incinerator is a 140 million Btu slagging rotary kiln with a vertical afterburner chamber. The gas cleaning train consists of a spray dryer, baghouse, saturator, wet scrubber, and wet electrostatic precipitator. Permitted waste storage areas include a bulk liquid tank farm (sixteen ~30,000 gallon tanks); drum storage buildings (~10,000 drum capacity); sludge storage tanks (~38,000 gallon total capacity); and bulk solids storage tanks (~1100 yd3 total capacity).
The wastes that are handled at the facility include hazardous wastes, PCBs, industrial wastes, and other non-hazardous wastes. The facility is designed to handle high and low Btu liquid wastes, sludges, bulk solids, and containerized wastes.
The current permitted capacity of the incinerator is approximately 13 tons per hour. It typically processes approximately 50,000 tons per year. Operations occur 24 hours a day. There are approximately 180 employees at the site.
The Permit on-line not official copy (please contact us for updated permit information) was reissued by the Executive Secretary of the Utah Solid And Hazardous Waste Control Board on May 8, 2000. Construction was completed on July 8, 1991. The shakedown period began on December 19, 1991 and ended on March 10, 1992. The trial burn period began March 10, 1992 and ended May 11, 1992. The post-trial burn period began on May 12, 1992 and ended December 31, 1993. Aragonite is currently operating in the final operation period of the Permit.
The facility is located approximately 2.5 miles south of Interstate 80 at the Aragonite exit (Exit #56). The nearest residential area is Grantsville, approximately 34 miles from Aragonite. The nearest single dwelling is at Delle, approximately 16 miles to the east of Aragonite. The site is arid to semi-arid with an annual precipitation of 6 to 12 inches.
The Compliance History 
for Clean Harbors Aragonite lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of Aragonite, please contact either Rick Page or Boyd Swenson at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail them at rpage@utah.gov or bswenson@utah.gov.
EnergySolutions (formerly Envirocare of Utah) operates a commercial treatment, storage and disposal facility located in Tooele County, Utah. It is a Utah corporation doing business in Utah. The facility is located approximately five miles south of the Clive exit (Exit #49) on Interstate 80, which is approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The facility is approximately one square mile in size and is located in a remote desert area of the Bonneville basin. It is approximately 20 miles from the nearest permanent human habitation. The site is arid to semiarid with an annual precipitation of 6 to 12 inches, while the yearly evaporation rate averages about 48 inches. The depth to groundwater averages about 30 feet. Because of its desert setting, the site is ideal for land disposal.
The EnergySolutions facility can receive two types of wastes. The first type contains both low level radioactivity with a hazardous waste component, known as mixed waste, and the second type of wastes contains only a low level radioactive component. The mixed wastes operations are regulated by both the Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste (DSHW) and the Utah Division of Radiation Control (DRC), with the DSHW regulating the hazardous waste portion and the DRC regulating the radioactive portion of the waste. Wastes that are only radioactive are regulated by the DRC and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
EnergySolutions was authorized to store, treat and dispose of mixed waste by the Part B Permit on-line not official copy (please contact us for updated permit information) that was re-issued by the Executive Secretary of the Utah Solid And Hazardous Waste Control Board on April 4, 2003. The nature of mixed waste managed at the facility includes contaminated soils, process waste, debris and sludges.
The mixed waste portion of the EnergySolutions facility consists of a disposal cell, a treatment building, a storage building and an operations building. The treatment building is used for stabilization of certain waste streams and the operations building is used for alternative treatment technologies, such as macroencapsulation and microencapsulation, as well as stabilization and storage of mixed waste.
The Compliance History for EnergySolutions lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of EnergySolutions, please contact either Otis Willoughby, Mark Christensen or Boyd Swenson at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail them at owilloughby@utah.gov, mechristensen@utah.gov or bswenson@utah.gov.
The Grassy Mountain Facility is a commercial, hazardous waste, treatment, storage and disposal facility located near Knolls, Tooele County, Utah. It lies approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the desert portion of the Bonneville basin near the Grassy Mountains. The site is one square mile in area and is remotely located, 25 miles from incorporated towns or permanent human habitation. It is owned and operated by Clean Harbors, which is a company licensed to do business in the State of Utah.
Because of its desert setting, the site is ideal for land disposal. Annual precipitation averages 6 inches, while the yearly potential evaporation rate averages about 48 inches. Relative humidity rarely exceeds 10 percent. There are no streams or rivers within a 40 mile radius of the facility; the nearest surface water is the Great Salt Lake, 30 miles to the northeast.
A shallow, nonpotable aquifer resides in the lake deposits below the site. The depth to the groundwater averages about 17 feet, and the aquifer’s flow is generally west-northwest. Because of high concentrations of dissolved solids (55,000-110,000 mg/L), the groundwater is not suitable for agricultural or domestic uses. Fresh water is trucked to the facility from Grantsville, Utah, nearly 60 miles away.
The Grassy Mountain Facility is capable of handling hazardous wastes, PCB contaminated wastes and oils, industrial wastes and other nonhazardous wastes. The facility can accept liquid, solid or semisolid waste forms for treatment, storage, and/or disposal.
The Grassy Mountain Facility consists of six RCRA landfill cells, four TSCA landfill cells, one RCRA/TSCA landfill cell and three industrial waste landfill cells. Three RCRA cells and two TSCA cells have been closed along with two industrial waste cells. One TSCA cell and one industrial waste cell have never been used.
A release of two low-level organic compounds from Industrial cell 1 was investigated during 1999-2003; a risk assessment concluded that risks to human health and the environment are insignificant (below 1E-6).
The facility was reissued a RCRA Part B Permit on-line not official copy (please contact us for updated permit information) by the Executive Secretary of the Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Control Board on May 2, 2001.
The Compliance History for Clean Harbors Grassy Mountain lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of the Clean Harbors Grassy Mountain Facility, please contact either Helge Gabert or Ed Costomiris at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail them at hgabert@utah.gov or ecostomiris@utah.gov.
Northeast Casualty Real Property, LLC is a subsidiary of Clean Harbors, Inc. and is located in Tooele County approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, three and one-half miles south of Exit 49 on I-80. The facility was known as the USPCI Clive Incineration facility when originally permitted in 1991. USPCI was later acquired by Laidlaw Environmental Services, which later merged with Safety-Kleen Corporation. The Safety-Kleen Clive facility was part of a purchase by Clean Harbors in 2002. The current permit on-line not official copy for the facility was issued on September 30, 2005.
The Clive facility operations originally included hazardous waste incineration, containerized waste processing including shredding, and storage in tanks, but those facilities and operations, along with part of the originally permitted container storage areas have been closed. Current operations at the Clive facility are limited to receipt of hazardous waste by truck and rail, transfer of waste between containers, addition of absorbent material to waste in containers and storage of containerized waste prior to shipment off-site to the Clean Harbors’ Grassy Mountain or Aragonite facilities or to an alternate off-site facility. No treatment occurs at the Clive facility and all wastes brought into the facility are ultimately shipped off-site for treatment or disposal.
Currently there are four permitted container storage areas at the facility. The Thaw Unit, Unit 105 has a capacity to store 60,000 gallons of waste and is designed to accommodate bulk loads, arriving by either rail or road which may require warming to facilitate sampling or management. The building is also used to transfer waste received in roll- offs to sm aller containers (e.g., 55 gallon drums) and to store large and small containers of waste . The Containerized Bulk Solids Storage Unit, Unit 106 has a current capacity of 630,240 gallons in what is designated as subunit 1. Subunit 1 is further divided into an enclosed and unenclosed portion. Large and smaller containers (e.g., 55 gallon drums) of waste are handled and stored in Unit 106, prior to transfer for management at other on-site units or shipment off-site for treatment or disposal. The Rail/Truck Transfer Bay, Unit 535, has a current storage capacity of 23,560 gallons and is used to transfer wastes from rail tankers to trucks. The Truck Wash Bay, Unit 604, is used for transferring waste between containers and for the storage of containers prior to being transferred and leaking containers being prepared for shipment off-site. The permitted storage capacity of the Truck Wash Bay is four 30 yd 3 roll-off boxes.
The Compliance History for Northeast Casualty Real Property lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any questions concerning the permitting or compliance of the Northeast Casualty Real Property Clive facility, please contact either Ed Costomiris or Boyd Swenson at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail them at ecostomiris@utah.gov or bswenson@utah.gov
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 offical copy) Please contact us for updated permit information. The Post-Closure/Corrective Action Permit (not the offical copy) that establishes requirements for the evaluation of releases of hazardous wastes or hazardous constituents; the development and implementation of corrective action; and the post-closure monitoring and maintenance of the implemented corrective action. Please contact us for updated post-closure permit information.
Currently, there are 58 Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) at TEAD, which are being investigated under the Corrective Action and Post-Closure permit.
TEAD is on the CERCLA National Priorities list and has entered into a Federal Facilities Agreement with EPA Region 8. Funding is also received via the Defense Environmental Restoration Account (DERA).
As a result of past disposal practices of spent industrial waste water into unlined ditches and ponds, groundwater underlying a large area of TEAD has been contaminated with chlorinated solvents (TCA, TCE, 1,1-DCA, and carbon tetrachloride). Three distinct, chlorinated solvent plumes exist:
(1) A main TCE plume, which originates at the now capped Industrial Wastewater Lagoon and associated ditches and extends to the northwest;
(2) A secondary TCE plume, which originates at Building 679 in the transferred, BRAC industrial area. This plume has spread off-site (about 2 miles to the north of state highway 112). While the source (an oil-water separator) was removed in the fall of 2000, the exact extent of the off-site portion to the north of the northeastern TEAD boundary is currently being determined.
(3) A tertiary carbon tetrachloride, TCE, TCA, and 1,1-DCA plume, which originates at the now closed landfill and various locations throughout the industrial area, and which appears to co-mingle with the main plume southwest of the IWL.
A transient, numerical groundwater flow model analysis, which has been developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is tracking all three plumes and will help to determine the most efficient way to contain them. Corrective action for all groundwater plumes will be initiated, once the Phase II RCRA Facility Investigation is complete (expected in spring 2008), in accordance with Utah Administrative Rule UAC R315-101.
Both human health and ecological risks as well as the migration of groundwater for TEAD’s SWMUs are currently under control.
A copy of the Environmental Indicators for Current Human Exposures Under Control and Migration of Contaminated Groundwater Under Control can be view on-line in pdf format.
The Compliance History for TEAD lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of TEAD North, please contact either Helge Gabert, Connie Rauen or Rick Page at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail them at hgabert@utah.gov, crauen@utah.gov or rpage@utah.gov.
Ashland Chemical, Inc. is located in the Freeport Center industrial park in Clearfield, Utah. Ashland distributes bulk and containerized chemicals, solvents and plastics, and provides hazardous waste storage services prior to arranging for off-site disposal. Ashland has a RCRA Part B permit (not the offical copy) for hazardous waste storage. Please contact us for updated permit information.
Ashland completed a RCRA Facility Investigation of potential contamination sites in 2005. Based on the results a No Futher Action letter was sent to the facility.
The Compliance History for Ashland lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of Ashland Chemical Inc. please contact Connie Rauen at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail him at crauen@utah.gov.
The Safety-Kleen Pioneer Road facility, located at 1066 South Pioneer Road in Salt Lake City, provides solvent distribution, collection, and reclamation to companies primarily engaged in automobile repair, industrial maintenance, and dry cleaning services. The facility collects petroleum and aqueous solvents, dry cleaning wastes, imaging wastes, paint wastes and universal wastes. The facility has a state hazardous waste permit to store hazardous wastes in containers and in a waste solvent storage tank. The facility also includes a vacuum distillation system for on-site recycling of petroleum-based parts washer solvents. The facility was originally permitted by the state in 1988, with the current permit on-line not official copy issued effective July 15, 2005. All wastes brought into the facility are either recycled on-site or shipped off-site for recycling, treatment or disposal.
Currently there are two permitted container storage areas at the facility. The warehouse storage area located inside the main warehouse building at the facility has a capacity of 4,500 gallons of containerized waste and is used to store spent parts washer solvent, spent immersion cleaner, dry cleaning wastes and spent imaging/photochemical wastes. Other materials, including non-hazardous wastes, universal wastes, 10-day transfer wastes and products may be stored in the warehouse storage area. The second container storage area is the metal waste paint storage building. This storage area is a separate building from the warehouse and is used to store paint wastes. It has a capacity of 3,300 gallons of waste and may also be used to store product. Containerized wastes stored at the facility are either recycled on-site or regularly shipped off-site for recycling, treatment or disposal.
Spent solvent from parts washers is either routed directly to the recycling system upon arrival at the facility or is pumped to the waste solvent storage tank. Containers of parts washer solvent are emptied into one of two dumpster/drum washers in the return and fill station on the warehouse dock. A pump in the dumpster/drum washer pumps the solvent to the recycle system or the waste storage tank. If parts washer solvent is not being recycled on-site, it is pumped from the waste storage tank to a tanker on a regular basis and sent off-site for recycling. The waste solvent tank is an above ground tank and has a permitted capacity of 13,986 gallons.
The Compliance History for Safety-Kleen lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any questions concerning the permitting or compliance of the Safety-Kleen Pioneer Road Facility, please contact Boyd Swenson at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail him atbswenson@utah.gov.
Hill Air Force Base is located five miles south of Ogden, Utah. The Department of Defense Air Logistics Center is tasked with the maintenance, repair, and modernization of aircraft, missiles, and other equipment related to national defense. Hill AFB has a RCRA Part B permit for hazardous waste storage.
Hill AFB is on the National Priorities List. The corrective action process at the facility is therefore being addressed through Superfund.
The Compliance History for Hill Air Force Base lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of Hill Air Force Base please contact Blake Robertson at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail him at bcrobertson@utah.gov.
Utah Test and Training Range is a remote military reservation operated by Hill Air Force Base as a practice bombing and gunnery range for military aircraft, propagation testing, rocket motor test firing, missile storage, and small arms and machine-gun firing ranges. The Range has an inactive hazardous waste landfill being addressed by a Post-Closure Permit.
An Open Burning/ Open Detonation Part B Permit (not theofficial copy) was reissued by the Executive Secretary of the Utah Solid And Hazardous Waste Control Board on February 13, 2003. The Post-Closure Permit was included in this Permit. Please contact us for updated permit information.
The Air Force has also initiated corrective action at the facility and is currently conducting a RCRA Facility Investigation.
The Compliance History for UTTR lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
If you have any question concerning the permitting or compliance of UTTR, please contact Connie Rauen at (801) 538-6170 or e-mail her at crauen@utah.gov.
For information about the Commercial/Federal Facilties Section, please contact Don Verbica at (801)-538-6170 or email him at dverbica@utah.gov
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