AGENCY: Department of Environmental Quality. Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

SERIES: 10285
TITLE: Hazardous material site-specific records
DATES: 1960-
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by site name, thereunder chronological.

DESCRIPTION: These records document specific sites where hazardous materials are stored or located in the State of Utah; they're also used by the Division to document the stabilization and/or clean-up of a specific site. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Act which governs these records is 40 CFR 300 (2019).

These records are used to maintain information about hazardous material sites and to monitor the levels of hazardous material at Utah facilities. They're also used to ensure that proper EPA and state laws/rules are maintained by the facilities, as governed by Utah Code 19-6-2(2019), the Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Act.

Records document long term operation, maintenance, and response activities, and may contain operation and maintenance plans, monitoring agreements, sampling and analysis data, inspection reports, site close-out records, administrative records, action memoranda, administrative orders, consent orders, Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs), Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study, community relations plans, fact sheets, work plans, site reports, health safety plans, proposed general and specific management plans, quality assurance project plans, lab billings, technical advisory information, field logs, site note books, and related correspondence.

The records may also contain background data, including disposal area type, report of engineering studies for proposed sites, plot plans and vicinity maps, engineering recommendations, future site construction plans, laboratory soil testing, soil sampling equipment logs, ground boring log records, water analysis sampling reports, geochemical studies, and geologic records of mine status. Additional records may include the Site Preliminary Assessment and Investigations worksheets and reports created by the department and submitted to EPA, site photos, drawings and location maps, site inspection forms, sample analysis sheets, Hazard Ranking System (HRS) worksheets, and water analysis sampling information.

RETENTION

Permanent. Retain for 200 year(s)

DISPOSITION

Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.

APPROVED: 06/1994

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 2 years after scanned and quality checked and then transfer to State Records Center. Retain in State Records Center for 197 years and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

Computer data files: Retain in Office for 200 years and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical Legal

This disposition is based on the historical information contained in these records. The information documents hazardous material sites located in the state, the effects of which are not entirely known, giving these records long-term research value. Some of the information may be duplicated at the federal level.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

SECONDARY DESIGNATION

Protected. Utah Code 63G-2-305(10)(a,b),(16),(18),(22),(31)(2019)

Controlled. Utah Code 63G-2-304(2008)