Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Environmental Quality
Title R315 - Waste Management and Radiation Control, Waste Management
Rule R315-103 - Commercial Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Criteria
Section R315-103-3 - Commercial Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Criteria - Land Use Compatibility and Location
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 315-103-3
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(a) Siting of commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, including commercial hazardous waste incinerators, is prohibited within:
(1) national, state, and county parks,
monuments, and recreation areas; designated wilderness and wilderness study
areas; wild and scenic river areas;
(2) ecologically and scientifically
significant natural areas, including but not limited to, wildlife management
areas and habitat for listed or proposed endangered species as designated
pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1982;
(3) 100 year floodplains, unless, for
non-land based facilities only, the conditions found in subsection
R315-264-18
are met to the satisfaction of the Director;
(4) 200 ft. of Holocene faults;
(5) underground mines, salt domes and salt
beds;
(6) dam failure flood areas;
(7) areas likely to be impacted by
landslide, mudflow, or other earth movement;
(8) farmlands classified or evaluated as
"prime," "unique," or of "statewide importance" by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Soil Conservation Service under the Prime Farmland Protection Act;
(9) areas above aquifers
containing ground water which has a total dissolved solids (TDS) content of
less than 500 mg/l and which does not exceed applicable ground water quality
standards for any contaminant. Land disposal facilities are also prohibited
above aquifers containing ground water which has a TDS content of less than
3000 mg/l and which does not exceed applicable ground water quality standards
for any contaminant. Non-land-based facilities above aquifers containing ground
water which has a TDS content of 500 to 3000 mg/l and all facilities above
aquifers containing ground water which has a TDS content between 3000 and
10,000 mg/l are permitted only where the depth to ground water is greater than
100 ft. The applicant for the proposed facility shall make the demonstration of
ground water quality necessary to determine the appropriate aquifer
classification;
(10) recharge zones
of aquifers containing ground water which has a TDS content of less than 3000
mg/l. Land disposal facilities are also prohibited in recharge zones of
aquifers containing ground water which has a TDS content of less than 10,000
mg/l;
(11) designated drinking
water source protection areas or, if no source protection area is designated, a
distance to existing drinking water wells and watersheds for public water
supplies of one year ground water travel time plus 1000 feet for non-land-based
facilities and five years ground water travel time plus 1000 feet for land
disposal facilities. This requirement does not include on-site facility
operation wells. The applicant for the proposed facility shall make the
demonstration, acceptable to the Director, of hydraulic conductivity and other
information necessary to determine the one or five year ground water travel
distance as applicable. The facility operator may be required to conduct vadose
zone or other near surface monitoring if determined to be necessary and
appropriate by the Director;
(12)
five miles of existing permanent dwellings, residential areas, and other
incompatible structures including, but not limited to, schools, churches, and
historic structures;
(13) five
miles of surface waters including intermittent streams, perennial streams,
rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and wetlands; and
(14) 1000 ft. of archeological sites to which
adverse impacts cannot reasonably be mitigated.
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