WCS RECEIVES APPROVAL ON RCRA BULK DISPOSAL

Waste Control Specialists has received approval from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality this week to begin offering customers extended bulk disposal services for low-level Class A waste in its RCRA hazardous waste landfill. The new service comes after WCS aligned its license amendment for exempted waste from the TCEQ with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s exempted waste criteria last year, although administrative procedures with TCEQ needed to be worked out before WCS could move forward. “We have begun to notify customers immediately about WCS’s new service,” WCS spokesman Chuck McDonald said yesterday. “I think its something that people are going to be interested in for their disposal.” The new bulk disposal enables WCS to offer less expensive options for disposing of the exempted waste, where as before it had to be packaged at a higher cost before it was disposed.