Envirocare adds nuclear waste firm

Currently headquartered in Arlington, Va., BNG America manages the solid waste program at the DOE's Savannah River Site, says the BNG America Web site.

Since 1991, the company has managed projects at DOE sites, national laboratories, nuclear fuel plants, utilities and industrial sites across the country, it adds.

According to the company's Internet posting, BNG America already has a presence in Utah: helping operate Western Zirconium, located west of Ogden.

In 2001, Western Zirconium, which manufactures coatings for fuel rods, received the Legislature's permission to ship low-level radioactive waste to Envirocare.

BNG America provided project management and technical support for an environmental compliance review that was "expected to improve liquid effluent handling facilities" at Western Zirconium, the BNG America Web site says.

Other BNG America projects include work at the Hanford Site, Washington; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee; Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho; Savannah River Site, South Carolina; Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, Colorado; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California; Mound Closure Site, Ohio; West Valley Demonstration Project, New York; Big Rock Point, Michigan; and Hematite D&D Project, Missouri.

Scientech's Decontamination and Decommissioning Division, the second company in the group, was acquired by Envirocare of Utah in October 2005. The division manages the decommissioning of sites nationwide for government agencies, education facilities and commercial projects, according to Envirocare.

Scientech D&D, based in New Milford, Conn., "offers a variety of services ranging from initial consultation to project management and execution of facility decontamination and decommissioning projects," Envirocare said at the time of the acquisition.

Envirocare's low-level radioactive waste disposal site near the railroad siding called Clive, Tooele County, would not be affected by the acquisition, although the name has changed. The release says the site will continue to "only take low-level Class A waste, as permitted by Utah's Department of Environmental Quality.

"No higher levels of radioactive waste will be handled or managed in the state of Utah."

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