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MO SCR23
Concurrent Resolution
Status
1/16/2014
Primary Sponsor
Maria Chappelle-Nadal
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AI Summary
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Mallinckrodt Chemical Works dumped radioactive uranium purification waste at Coldwater Creek (1946-1957) and later at West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton (1973), which was not designed to store radioactive material and poses significant health risks
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Environmental Protection Agency placed West Lake Landfill on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1990 and issued a 2008 Record of Decision to cap wastes with only rocks, rubble, and clay without a protective liner
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An uncontrolled underground fire has burned at the West Lake Landfill since 2012
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Requests Congress transfer remediation authority from the EPA to the United States Army Corps of Engineers Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, which has greater experience with similar projects in St. Louis
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Calls for excavation and transportation of all radioactive chemical wastes to a licensed radioactive waste facility away from water and population centers
Legislative Description
Urges the United States Congress to transfer authority for the remediation of the West Lake Landfill radioactive wastes from the EPA to the Corps of Engineers' Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program
Last Action
Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
1/21/2014