Envirocare seeks quick approval to double size of landfill

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License change: The company hopes to get lawmakers' backing in the special session this month
By Patty Henetz
The Salt Lake Tribune


Envirocare of Utah is seeking to .. double .. its radioactive waste landfill, pushing to get a resolution approving the expansion on this month's legislative special session agenda. Envirocare says .. expansion is necessary to replace equipment .. at its facility near Clive ... Company officials say the best place to build new facilities .. is on a section of the 536-acre parcel Envirocare's new owners bought two months ago ... But critics question the need to open the entire 536 acres to .. development as a waste cell, .. given Envirocare's statements that its current .. facility can operate another 17 to 20 years. Envirocare officials have said they won't expand .. waste disposal onto the new land .. soon. But if that's the case, said Jason Groenewold, director of .. Healthy Environment Alliance Utah, why does the license amendment .. cover the entire land parcel? <snip>

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