b'Hazardous Materials in IdahoIt is important for every state to maintain a record ofwith micronutrients (MAP+), super phosphoric acid where the hazardous materials are located, how they(SPA), merchant grade phosphoric acid (MGA) and are being used and processed, and where they goammonium polyphosphate (APP) located in Soda after processing is complete. Springs, Idaho.3MAJOR CHEMICALCondas main infrastructure consists of mines, MANUFACTURING ANDbeneciation plants, sulfuric acid plants, phosphoric PROCESSING PLANTS acid plants and granulation plants. Its measured and Idaho is home to several chemical manufacturingindicated resources, which are inclusive of mineral plants, many of which are geared towards fertilizerreserves, include 1.3 megaton of stockpile ore.4production. Fertilizer plays an important role inChemical ManufacturingIdahos agriculture industry, which is comprised of more than 25,000 farms and ranches.1 Other chemical manufacturing locations in the EPA database are all in the southern half of the state. These SimplotDon Plant locations include Dubois Chemical Manufacturing in The Don Plant located just outside of Pocatello, IdahoNampa, AMVAC Chemical Corporation in Marsing, P4 was constructed in 1944 and was the rst fertilizerProduction LLC in Soda Springs, and Pacic Ethanol production facility built by the J.R. Simplot Company.Magic Valley LLC and Tessenderlo Kerley Inc, both When production began in the 1940s, the Don Plantof which are in Burley. These facilities produce basic produced less than 1,000 tons of phosphate productschemicals and manufacture products through further annually. Now, the plant produces over 1,000,000processing of chemicals.5tons annually of various phosphate fertilizers, feedNUCLEAR WASTE GENERATION, phosphates, and industrial products. Through theHANDLING, AND DISPOSALadoption of new technology and regular upgrades, the plant has operated continuously since it was built.Idaho National LaboratoryToday the Don Plant employs 350 people in a diverseFor nearly four decades, the Fuel Reprocessing range of occupations, including plant operations,Complex at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant instrumentation, environmental science, chemistry,(ICPP) recovered thousands of kilograms and millions and machining. of dollars worth of usable uranium from spent reactor fuel.6 The facility evolved to process new types of The Don Plant is one of four fertilizer manufacturingspent nuclear fuel and process materials from nearly plants in the J.R. Simplot Companys AgriBusiness100 dierent reactors. Research and test reactors Group. A vital component to the fertilizer productionlocated at the National Reactor Testing Station at the Don Plant is phosphate ore mined at Simplotssupplied a large proportion of the fuel load for the Smoky Canyon Mine near Afton, Wyoming. The plantfacility, along with nearly all the fuel cores that had receives 100 percent of the ore mined at Smokypowered the United States Navys eet of nuclear Canyon. Once mined, the ore is mixed with watersubmarines and surface ships. Fuels clad in aluminum, and shipped to the plant through an undergroundzirconium, stainless steel, and graphite were routinely slurry pipeline.2 processed at the plant. Custom processing capabilities Itafos were also developed through the years, and as a result a variety of valuable isotopes and inert gases were Under the Itafos company umbrella is Conda, aisolated and shipped to research laboratories across vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business withthe country. As ICPP scientists developed the facilities a production capacity of approximately 550 kilotonsand skills necessary to reprocess highly enriched fuels per year of monoammonium phosphate (MAP), MAPfrom so multiple sources, they also developed many Hazardous Materials 71'