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State contractors are trucking hazardous soil from that site to nonhazardous waste landfills in Utah, Nevada and Arizona — states that rely on the more lenient federal hazardous waste standards.

He had planned to find work at a grocery store and then to get into trucking, a business he is familiar with.

Lewis said the thieves are sometimes tipped off to valuable shipments by confederates working at warehouses or trucking companies.

Federal officials counter that the debris can be disposed safely at the local landfills, and that trucking it to far away hazardous waste dumps would require longer truck trips that would delay the cleanup.

“We have the capacity for the size of the storm we expect,” Pestrella said Wednesday, adding that crews have been working “24/7 for the last couple weeks trucking debris out of these areas.”