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The DOE is looking at its , in the Bannister Federapl Complex, as a potential storage site. The department plane a public meetingfrom 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. July 23 at the as part of preparingt an environmental impact statement regarding thepotential sites. The othef cities the DOE is considering aspossible mercury-storagd sites are Grand Junction, Richland, Wash.; North Augusta, Hawthorne, Nev.; Andrews, Texas; and Idaho Falls, Idaho.
The Mercurg Export Ban Act of 2008 prohibitsthe sale, distribution or transfeer of elemental mercury by federal agencied to any other federal or any state or locap government agency, or any private individual or entity under the controll of a federal agency, with certainm exceptions, as of Jan. 1, 2013. Elementall mercury is a toxic metal. Sources in the United States include elemental mercury used in the chlorind and caustic sodamanufacturing process, reclaimed from recycling and waste recovery, and generated as a byproductt from gold mining, the DOE said.
The DOE’s plans to leave the Kansas City Plant site for a new facilithy to be built at Missouri Highway 150 and Botts Relocation of the plant is expecteed to begin in the winterof 2011, and full occupancyu of the new plant is expectede by the summer of 2013.
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