Waste Disposal Site Proposed
An environmental impact report is being prepared for a proposed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, a development of U.S. Ecology, to be located in Ward Valley, about 25 miles west of Needles in San Bernardino County.
The facility would serve as a repository for low-level radioactive wastes generated by hospitals, universities, industries and utilities. The plant would accept waste materials from California and future compact members.
U.S. Ecology plans to begin operations of the disposal facility by late 1990, giving California the country’s first new low-level waste facility established in accordance with the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985.
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