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Utah's US Magnesium named a federal toxic emergency cleanup site
Posted:
11/03/2009 9:02 AM
Utah has a new Superfund toxic cleanup site, the magnesium-processing plant on the southwest edge of the Great Salt Lake.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to make its decision on US Magnesium official on Wednesday in the Federal Register . In a news release Monday, the agency said the Tooele County plant was a risk to human health and the environment because of toxic wastes, including cancer-causing dioxins and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and other dangerous byproducts. It is Utah's 24th Superfund site.
Company President Mike Legge said he could not respond to EPA's announcement because the company had not been notified about being added to the "National Priority List." He said US Mag, which
employs about 400, would "certainly challenge" the listing in light of the arguments the company put forward last year when EPA first said it was considering adding the company to the Superfund list."US Magnesium's comments," he said, "were factual and strong in refuting the fundamental assumptions made by the EPA in that listing proposal.
