Comment EI-7189
Received or sent (printed as 4/8/2008)
The Bureau of Waste Management(BWM) would like the K & O or known by WATCO here in Kansas submit a work plan describing how they plan on disposing of railroad ties which have been left by them or their contactor(s). We view the way they have disposed of the ties as Illegal Disposal of a solid waste. K & O have left thousands of waste ties in the tree and brush permited site of the town of Jetmore in Hodgeman County from this abandonment. We have other areas where they have left ties which are waste ties. At this time we are in discussions with K & O or WATCO with waste ties they have left on private land in 2005 in Butler County. The Bureau of Waste Management is asking the Surface Transportation Board for assistance on this abandonment. The waste ties should be properly disposed at a permitted facility. Please have K & O submit to the BWM copies of receipts showing the waste ties were properly disposed at a permitted facility. We ask that all abandonments conducted by K & O be subject to these conditions to assure the citizens of Kansas that proper stewardship of our environment is maintain by all conduct business in the great state of Kansas.
Submitted by: Bob Medina · Bureau of Waste Management · Topeka, Kansas
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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