Group: Natural Resources, Agriculture, & Environment Agency: Environmental Quality Function The mission of the Department of Environmental Quality is to safeguard public health and quality of life by protecting and improving environmental quality while considering the benefits to public health, the impacts on economic development, property, wildlife, tourism, business, agriculture, forests, and other interests, and the costs to the public and to industry. DEQ also has the responsibility to strengthen local health departments' environmental programs; build consensus among the public, industry, and local governments in developing environmental protection goals; and appropriately balance the need for environmental protection with the need for economic and industrial development.
The Department's main offices are in the new state office buildings west of Redwood Road on North Temple Street. The Department operates an air monitoring center on Parkway Boulevard in West Valley City. The Department also has district engineers located in St. George, Price, Richfield, and Roosevelt. These staff members work in coordination with local health departments to support environmental programs specifically related to the rural areas to which they are assigned. Statutory Authority The Utah Department of Environmental Quality is governed by the Utah Department of Environmental Code, Title 19 of the Utah Code - UCA 19 is known as the 'Environmental Quality Code'.
- UCA 19-1-104 states the governor appoints that executive director with consent of the Senate.
- UCA 19-1-105 creates the Divisions of Air Quality, Drinking Water, Environmental Response and Remediation, Radiation, Solid and Hazardous Waste, and Water Quality.
- UCA 19-1-106 creates policymaking boards of Air Quality, Radiation Control, Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Solid and Hazardous Waste Control.
- UCA 19-1-108 creates the Environmental Quality Restricted Account.
- UCA 19-1-201 empowers the Department to complete its purpose.
- UCA 19-2 creates the Air Conservation Act and empowers the Air Quality Board and Division of Air Quality to enforce the Act.
- UCA 19-3 creates the Radiation Control Act and directs the Radiation Control Board and Division of Radiation statutes they are required to uphold.
- UCA 19-4 creates the Safe Drinking Water Act and directs the Drinking Water Board and Drinking Water Division to uphold drinking water standards in the state.
- UCA 19-5 creates the Water Quality and empowers the Water Quality Board and Division of Water Quality to enforce water quality standards.
- UCA 19-6 creates the Solid and Hazardous Waste Act and defines requirements of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Control Board and the Divisions of Environmental Response and Remediation and Solid and Hazardous Waste.
Performance 2010 Major Accomplishments and Services
Executive Director's Office -
- Maintained state primacy for implementing federal programs
- Coordinated department programs with local health departments
- Provided support for business assistance, public participation, and pollution prevention activities
Air Quality -
- Operates an ambient air monitoring network, providing pollution information for daily air quality status
- Reviewed and issued air permits for 299 new or modifying sources
- Completed 752 compliance inspections of major and minor sources
Environmental Response -
- 1,221 underground storage tank facility compliance inspections
- Closed 25 Petroleum Storage Tank (PST) fund covered releases and 46 non-PST Leaking underground storage tank (LUST) releases for a total of 4,323 cumulative releases closed to date
- Received and coordinated 354 incident notifications
Radiation Control -
- Regulated 198 users of radioactive materials
- Monitored 8200 X-ray tubes licensed to organizations such as hospitals and dentists
- Regulated 233,509 tons of radioactive waste
- Conducted 3,505 radioactive waste transportation inspections
Water Quality -
- Successfully managed 388 Utah Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems and 1634 storm water permits
- Successfully administered the Utah Wastewater Project Assistance Program by closing eleven conventional loans totaling $42,461,000, awarding 48 grants totaling $5,953,088, and meeting all requirements for allocation, reporting, and management of the $20,649,900 in ARRA funds received by the State Revolving Loan Fund
Drinking Water -
- Serves 99.9 percent of public water systems in Utah
- Conducted 1,186 engineering reviews of public drinking water projects and 515 official permits and approvals to ensure proper design and construction
Solid and Hazardous Waste -
- Regulated 64,200 tons of hazardous waste
- Regulated 14,700 tons of chemical agent waste
- Regulated 16,600 tons of PCB-contaminated waste
- Regulated 4.02 million tons of non-hazardous waste
- Recycled 12 million gallons of used oil
- Recycled 69 pounds of mercury
- Recycled 1.97 million used tires
- Managed 169 solid waste, hazardous waste and used oil permits
- State Indoor Radon Program tracked approximately 3,353 short- and long-term radon tests
Funding Detail | Sources of Finance | 2007
Actual | 2008
Actual | 2009
Actual | 2010
Actual | 2011
Approp | | General Fund | $11,012,500 | $11,668,700 | $12,548,600 | $10,919,200 | $10,684,400 | | General Fund, One-time | $431,600 | $1,000,000 | $738,000 | ($455,100) | $0 | | Federal Funds | $27,545,700 | $25,132,900 | $46,338,300 | $63,168,800 | $42,361,800 | | Dedicated Credits Revenue | $9,994,400 | $9,643,200 | $8,752,600 | $9,010,300 | $9,485,000 | | GFR - Environmental Quality | $6,333,800 | $6,740,500 | $6,515,300 | $6,475,800 | $6,521,400 | | GFR - Petroleum Storage Tank | $0 | $50,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | | GFR - Underground Wastewater System | $76,000 | $76,000 | $75,700 | $76,000 | $76,000 | | GFR - Used Oil Administration | $727,600 | $737,000 | $744,300 | $742,300 | $747,000 | | GFR - Voluntary Cleanup | $611,500 | $614,700 | $622,000 | $619,400 | $624,000 | | WDSF - Drinking Water | $129,300 | $159,400 | $0 | $0 | $138,700 | | WDSF - Drinking Water Loan Program | $0 | $0 | $138,700 | $138,700 | $3,500 | | WDSF - Drinking Water Origination Fee | $0 | $0 | $77,200 | $76,200 | $74,900 | | WDSF - Water Quality | $904,400 | $1,066,600 | $0 | $0 | $0 | | WDSF - Utah Wastewater Loan Program | $0 | $0 | $1,003,200 | $976,500 | $995,800 | | WDSF - Water Quality Origination Fee | $0 | $0 | $66,300 | $85,700 | $79,300 | | ET - Petroleum Storage Tank | $1,246,600 | $1,255,100 | $1,306,800 | $1,298,000 | $1,310,800 | | ET - Waste Tire Recycling | $118,900 | $125,000 | $129,800 | $129,200 | $130,700 | | Clean Fuel Vehicle Loan | $101,300 | $106,000 | $109,400 | $108,800 | $110,000 | | Designated Sales Tax | $7,175,000 | $7,175,000 | $7,175,000 | $7,175,000 | $7,175,000 | | Petroleum Storage Tank Account | $50,000 | $0 | $19,100 | $50,000 | $50,000 | | Petroleum Storage Tank Loan | $149,000 | $155,600 | $146,800 | $160,500 | $163,300 | | Transfers - Within Agency | $481,100 | $570,700 | $141,700 | $1,076,600 | ($45,300) | | Repayments | $11,816,900 | $15,182,200 | $19,589,700 | $23,703,600 | $16,337,500 | | Beginning Nonlapsing | $1,701,300 | $747,000 | $1,347,900 | $1,321,800 | $482,800 | | Closing Nonlapsing | ($746,900) | ($1,347,900) | ($1,321,800) | ($161,600) | ($482,800) | | Lapsing Balance | ($1,048,700) | ($1,100,700) | ($927,800) | ($3,585,000) | ($350,000) | | Total | $78,811,300 | $79,757,000 | $105,336,800 | $123,110,700 | $96,673,800 |
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| | Line Items | 2007
Actual | 2008
Actual | 2009
Actual | 2010
Actual | 2011
Approp | | Environmental Quality | $47,826,900 | $47,315,400 | $49,313,200 | $49,444,900 | $51,361,300 | | Water Security Dev Acct - Water Pollution | $17,655,300 | $18,129,000 | $22,156,700 | $53,360,500 | $25,875,000 | | Water Security Dev Acct - Drinking Water | $12,929,100 | $14,312,600 | $33,866,900 | $20,305,300 | $19,437,500 | | Hazardous Substance Mitigation Fund | $400,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | | Total | $78,811,300 | $79,757,000 | $105,336,800 | $123,110,700 | $96,673,800 |
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| | Categories of Expenditure | 2007
Actual | 2008
Actual | 2009
Actual | 2010
Actual | 2011
Approp | | Personnel Services | $30,687,800 | $32,597,600 | $33,585,700 | $33,228,300 | $34,451,100 | | In-state Travel | $239,900 | $261,500 | $219,300 | $173,300 | $257,800 | | Out-of-state Travel | $208,400 | $233,300 | $147,900 | $121,700 | $226,400 | | Current Expense | $9,422,500 | $8,197,600 | $8,468,300 | $9,215,700 | $9,541,100 | | DP Current Expense | $2,256,200 | $2,724,000 | $3,066,400 | $2,626,300 | $3,506,000 | | DP Capital Outlay | $116,600 | $43,700 | $5,100 | $0 | $0 | | Capital Outlay | $929,600 | $432,600 | $548,200 | $433,200 | $388,900 | | Other Charges/Pass Thru | $34,550,300 | $35,266,700 | $59,295,900 | $77,312,200 | $48,302,500 | | Trust & Agency Disbursements | $400,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | | Total | $78,811,300 | $79,757,000 | $105,336,800 | $123,110,700 | $96,673,800 |
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| | Other Indicators | 2007
Actual | 2008
Actual | 2009
Actual | 2010
Actual | 2011
Approp | | Budgeted FTE | 421.0 | 403.0 | 392.5 | 391.0 | 387.0 | | Vehicles | 41 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 46 |
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