We need you to submit LOTS of comments to the DEP on this one!
Remember the stories of frack waste trucks being turned away from landfills because their loads were setting off radiation alarms?
Well, the loads consisted of drill cuttings.
NOW, Range Resources has applied to the DEP to use the cuttings as PAVING MATERIALS for well pads and access roads! If approved, this would set the precedent of deeming paving pads and roads a “beneficial use” of radioactive fracking waste.
Here’s the notice from the DEP:
REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL PERMIT—RESIDUAL WASTE
Application Received for Registration under the Solid Waste Management Act, the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act and Residual Waste Regulations for a General Permit to Operate Residual Waste Processing Facilities and the Beneficial Use of Residual Waste other than Coal Ash.
Central Office: Division of Municipal and Residual Waste, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 14th Floor,
400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17106-9170.
General Permit Application No. WMGR097R025, Range Resources—Appalachia, LLC., 100 Throckmorton
Street Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Registration to operate under General Permit Number WMGR097R025 for research and development activities to support the beneficial use or processing prior to beneficial use. The project involves the beneficial use of vertical drill cutting from natural gas wells as an aggregate in a stabilized soil pavement for construction of Marcellus Shale and Utica well pads and access roads.
The registration was received by Central Office on January 10, 2014.
Written comments concerning the research and development application should be directed to Scott E. Walters, Chief, Permits Section, Division of Municipal and Residual Waste, Bureau of Waste Management, P. O. Box 69170, Harrisburg, PA 17106-9170. TDD users may contact the Department through the Pennsylvania Relayservice, (800) 654-5984.
Comments may also be submitted via e-mail at ra-epbenuseall@pa.gov. When submitting comment via e-mail, place ‘‘Comments on General Permit Number WMGR097R025’’ in the subject line. Faxed comments will not be accepted. Public comments must be submitted within 60 days of this notice and may recommend revisions to, and approval or denial of the application.