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Deficiencies corrected
UNL close to trashing hazardous waste problem
By Eric Snyder
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is close
to putting its hazardous waste problems behind
it, an official said.
After being cited for 11 hazardous waste
violations earlier this year, the university has
corrected the deficiencies and is awaiting ap
proval of the changes by the Environmental
Protection Agency, said Del Weed, manager of
environmental health and safely at UNL.
Weed said the changes were made in May,
and the EPA is expected to approve the changes
in the fall.
“In our own mind they’re acceptable,” he
said.
Most of the citations were issued for the
manner in which records were kept and the way
materials were stored on East Campus, Weed
said.
The citations were issued after an EPA audit
of UNL’s hazardous waste procedures.
The university was fined for the violations.
Although Weed would not give the amount of
the fine, he said it has been paid.
In addition to making UNL record-keeping
in compliance, the university has hired a per
son to oversee hazardous waste disposal at
UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical
Center.
Weed said UNL produces roughly 20tons of
hazardous waste annually. He estimated itcost#<*
the university $120,000 per year to dispose or
its hazardous waste.
The waste comes from campus labs and
agriculture and pesticide research, Weed said.
Most of the cost is incurred, he said, when
the waste is shipped out of the state by contrac
tors, who dispose of the materials properly.
In an effort to minim ize waste production at
the university, some materials are being dealt
with using alternative methods. For example,
some pesticides now can be returned to the
manufacturers rather than be handled by dis
posal contractors.
Weed said a substantial increase in waste
production is expected with the completion of
the George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and
Biomaterials Research in a few years.
Library will
offer more
resources
By Eric Snyder
Staff Reporter
With the newest add ilion to UNL’s
Library Indexing System, faculty
members and students will have ex
posure to a larger number of resource *
materials while at the same time find
ing them more accessible.
IRIS Plus will allow users to index
up to 16 databases with topics rang
ing from agriculture to psychology.
Users will have access to on-line
catalogs of the University of Nebraska
at Omaha and Colorado Alliance
Research Libraries.
One database available through the
IRIS Plus System contains the tables
of contents of more than 10,000jour
nals through which students can ob
tain descriptions of nearly 600,000
articles.
Students and faculty members will
be able to gain access to IRIS Plus’s
offerings through the 19 new work
stations that are part of the system.
Nine of the stations will be in Love
Library, with the other 10 in branch
libraries.
Previously, database research was
restricted to Love Library and could
be done by only one person at a time.
With IRIS Plus, databases can be
searched from any of the worksta
tions on campus and by several users
at a lime.
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The system installation is sched
uled for completion in August, with
all of the stations on line for the fall
semester.
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