Environmental Protection Agency is ready to intervene, while district asked the Utah senator to intercede
The removal plan must specify a project timeline, a contractor, where the piles will go and how public exposure to the soil will be avoided during transport. The district’s consultant responded to the DEQ last month with a plan for doing the work without EPA help, but did not include a timeline, according toDistrict spokeswoman Heidi Matthews declined to explain how the district hopes to proceed because the plan is in draft form.
“The soil piles remain in violation of the previously cited regulations…and remain in very close proximity to both TMJH and McPolin Elementary School,” the letter says. “The direction to move these piles off-site … remains unchanged.”At the October school board meeting, school officials did not mention the letter but said they were working with Sen. Mitt Romney’s office on funding and the project timeline.