The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s commissioners will consider a rule on what Texas Compact party waste can be incidentally commingled during processing at its meeting May 16. TCEQ’s Radioactive Materials Division issued its proposed rule April 27, with a tiered limit on percent of incidental commingling allowed, per waste stream, to be disposed of at Waste Control Specialists’ Andrews, Texas facility. At the Texas Compact meeting May 10, the commissioners said they hoped that TCEQ would consider directing its staff to provide generators with a regulatory guide as well. The meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. CST, at TCEQ’s headquarters in Austin, Texas.
TEXAS REGULATORS TO CONSIDER WASTE COMMINGLING RULE
WCS touts waste shipments via rail
Waste Control Specialists (WCS) received a lot of radioactive waste by train at its West Texas site during 2024, company president David Carlson told Exchange Monitor’s Radwaste Summit last week in Savannah, Ga. During 2024, WCS received 600 shipments of waste by rail. This included 5,000 canisters and 3 million cubic feet of waste, according […]