Technical Review of AK Steel Corp.'s
Hazardous Waste Permit Application

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has started a technical review of a hazardous waste permit application submitted by AK Steel Corporation, Kansas City. AK Steel, 7001 Winner Rd., is seeking to renew the facility’s current hazardous waste permit, which expires on Feb. 16, 2004. The public is invited to review and offer written comments on the permit application.

AK Steel is an inactive steel manufacturing facility. Four closed hazardous waste dust landfills remain on the property. Historically, these landfills were used to dispose of electric furnace baghouse dust created during steel production. The landfills are currently covered with three feet of dirt and a layer of grass. The main hazardous waste and materials of concern at the facility are lead, cadmium, zinc, arsenic and various volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds.

The renewal of AK Steel’s hazardous waste permit would require the facility to continue to check, preserve and, if necessary, clean up any hazardous materials released at the landfills. AK Steel would also continue to examine and clean up areas of the property where hazardous waste and materials are present and may create a threat to human health or the environment. The new permit would also move supervisory responsibility for AK Steel’s investigation and clean up activities from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

The permit application can be viewed and copied at the Kansas City Public Library, during normal business hours, or by appointment at the Department of Natural Resources’ Hazardous Waste Program, 1730 E. Elm St., Jefferson City.

The public is invited to review and offer written comments on the permit application. Comments are effective if they point out legal or technical issues in the permit application. Please send written comments to Bruce Stuart at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Hazardous Waste Program, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176. For more information, call Stuart at 573-751-3553 or 800-361-4827.