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Kennecott South Zone withdrawn from Superfund designation |
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region VIII (US EPA) announce that in early September the proposal to list the Kennecott South Zone Site on the National Priorities List (NPL) will be withdrawn. The Site was originally proposed for listing on January 18, 1994.
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Selenium Standards - Comments are IN! |
The Department of Environmental Quality invited public comment on proposed amendments to water quality standards of the State. The proposed amendments include a revision of Antidegradation Review, Segmentation of Great Salt Lake into 4 Bays and transitional wetlands (below 4208 feet) along the shoreline, and a tissue based numeric standard for selenium in Gilbert Bay of 12.5 mg/kg (the EC10) with an Assessment Procedure that will apply annual selenium caps to all permitted discharges when the geometric mean egg selenium concentration reaches 60% of the standard. Many other changes that require careful review are also proposed. Two public hearings were scheduled in August and comments were due on 20 August. We will keep you updated on what happens.
Additional details are available on the DEQ website: www.waterquality.utah.gov/rules/rulechange.htm
FOR A LITTLE HISTORY on this topic and to review our submitted comments and all the recommendations, please click on "Read more..."
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FACT Sheet for GSL Minerals Expansion and Application |
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Great Salt Lake Minerals has recently applied to expand their operations in Clyman Bay and Bear River Bay to increase their total footprint to 73,000 acres or equivalent to 119 square miles. Click read more to find a fact sheet, a copy of the application and maps and FRIENDS comments to the ACOE.
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Tribune Opinion Piece and Appeals to the GSL Minerals Record of Decision filed on behalf of FRIENDS |
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Our Executive Director Lynn de Freitas published an opinion piece in the Salt Lake Tribune on 18 August 2007. Click on read more to view it and the three appeals on the Record of Decision in their entirety.
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WHSRN advises DNR against GSL Minerals Expansion |
Read the letter to DNR Executive Director Mike Styler from WHSRN Hemispheric Council Chairman Marshall P. Jones. He registers concern for critical habitat loss for shorebirds if the 10-year Great Salt Lake Minerals Lease is granted. Download here  whsrn_council_ltr_re_bear_r__gunnison_bays_devlpmt_07_09-12
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