Comments: Good luck Sarah!
Who would be the new board members?
Amanda Smith, director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, has a seat on all five advisory boards associated with her agency. The other eight are filled with the governor’s office nominees and confirmed by the state Senate. A confirmation vote is expected later this month.
» Peter Jenkins, University of Utah health physicist*
» Jerry Lynn Hurst, Tooele County commissioner
» Brady Bradford, Southeast Utah Health Department
» Dan Shrum, EnergySolutions
» Scott Bird, Kennecott Utah Copper*
» Richard Blake Codell, consultant and former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff*
» Sarah Fields, Uranium Watch
» Ulrich Rassner, University of Utah diagnostic radiologist*
*returning board member
By JUDY FAHYS
| The Salt Lake Tribune
A revamped Radiation Control Board could be seated as soon as next month.
EnergySolutions Inc.’s Dan Shrum, who oversees regulatory compliance for the Salt Lake City company, is on the list of appointees Gov. Gary Herbert has sent to the state Senate for confirmation next week.
The board is the first of five to be overhauled since SB21, legislation written by the Utah Manufacturers Association and sponsored earlier this year by Rep. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, to limit board membership of the five Department of Environmental Quality Boards and strip them of their quasi-judicial roles.
In one of its last acts, the old, 13-member radiation board sent a letter last spring to the governor complaining about the designated make-up of the new board, which has one assigned slot apiece for the radioactive waste industry and uranium mill-tailings companies.
Peter Jenkins, who was chairman at the time the board was disbanded, signed the letter, and he has been nominated to be on the newly configured board.
Sarah Fields of Moab-based Uranium Watch also has been invited to join the panel. Her group has been a watchdog keeping tabs on operations at the White Mesa uranium mill and the Atlas uranium-tailings cleanup in Moab.
