Opportunities to Learn about Plans for Lower Burke Canyon Waste Repository

EPA Press Release:

Opportunities to Learn about Plans for Lower Burke Canyon Waste Repository

• Open House June 4
• Review Early Designs: Public Comments Due June 28

Mark your calendars for a public Open House on June 4, 2013! Drop in any time from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm, at the Wallace Inn, 100 Front Street, Wallace, ID to learn about plans for a new waste repository coming to the Lower Burke Canyon.

Early designs are now available for public review in select local libraries and online: http://go.usa.gov/Tvzd. Comments are due June 28. Send comments to Bill Adams, ECL-113, EPA, 1200 6th Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101, or email comments to: cdabasin@epa.gov.

The community helped select the site for this repository. Environmental Protection Agency, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and Basin Environmental Improvement Project Commission Citizens Coordinating Council are hosting the Open House.

Learn More: Lower Burke Canyon Waste Repository Fact Sheet

Access Public Review Documents and Learn More About Waste Repositories in the Basin