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(Canon City, Colorado-AP) -- Radioactive soil that was to be buried near Canon City, Colorado, has instead been headed to Utah's Envirocare in Tooele County for the past several months.
The Cotter Corporation processes uranium at its Canon City mill and had submitted the lowest bid to accept up to 470-thousand tons of radioactive soil from a Superfund site in New Jersey.
But the Colorado Department of Health and Environment rejected the proposal in October, and Cotter has yet to resubmit its application.
Instead waste has been going to a dump operated by Envirocare in Clive, Utah, along with proceeds from a 70 million dollar transportation-and-disposal contract with the Army Corps of Engineers.
If Cotter cannot persuade Colorado officials to allow disposal in Canon City, the Maywood waste eventually will go to Utah without a rebidding of the contract.
(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
