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Radiation Regulators Being Taken to Court
By Judy Fahys
Salt Lake Tribune
February 28, 2006

The Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL) is taking the state Radiation Control Division to court over its decision to sign off on EnergySolution's expansion plans for its Tooele County landfill.
   

The Radiation Control Board reviewed the matter and, in January, backed the division's decision to allow the site to double in size.
   

The company operates a low-level radioactive and hazardous waste landfill in Tooele County and has recently expanded into new areas of the nuclear waste business.
   

HEAL Utah calls the approval process "a sham," claiming the division failed to meet the legal or technical requirements needed to grant an expansion.
   

"The regulatory board misapplied the law and disregarded the facts of this case," said Jim McConkie of Trial-lawyers Representing Utah's Environment (TRUE), a group of attorneys representing HEAL Utah in its appeal.
   

"The gravity of locking Utah into another half-century of nuclear waste disposal deserves a lot more scrutiny than what was given to this expansion request."
   

Dane Finerfrock, director of the state Radiation Control Division, declined to comment on HEAL's request to the Utah Court of Appeals.