Occasionally the UKQAA has to take a ‘position’ The following position papers and press releases explain where we stand/stood on important issues to the industry. No. 3 March 2010 On 22 December 2008 at 1.00 a.m. in the Tennessee Valley, USA near Harriman, Roane County, suffered the failure of a sixty foot earthen dam at the Kingston Fossil Fuel power station, containing 4,100,000 m3 of saturated coal fly ash. As a result of this catastrophic accident, the EPA in the USA has proposed re-classifying fly ash (PFA as its is generally known in the UK) as Hazardous Waste. This would be detrimental to the utilisation of fly ash in many different applications. The UK does have a number of lagoons, but these are constructed, inspected and maintained in a totally different manner, thereby rendering the risk of a similar dam failure with the UK as non-existent. Press Release by the Association of Electricity Producers - Sept 2008 Welcoming the development of a Quality Protocol Press Release August 2008 Responsibly Sourced Materials Scheme was introduced. No. 2 July 2007 The issues relating to the Waste Framework Directive and the Environment Agency in the EU/UK.