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Utah law currently allows certain industrial waste materials—known as industrial byproducts, such as fly ash, slag, cement kiln dust, and contaminated soil from industrial processes—to be reused only in specific Department of Transportation projects, and only when the byproduct comes from an inactive industrial site and meets health and safety standards approved by the director of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control. This bill would broaden that authority so that once the director approves an application to reuse an industrial byproduct, the material could be used in any qualifying public infrastructure project, including roads, curbs, walkways, parking facilities, and other public-benefit construction, without the restriction that it originate from an inactive industrial site. The bill also specifies that the health risk standard used to evaluate these applications applies to commercial or industrial exposure, explicitly excludes coal mine waste from the definition of industrial byproduct, and exempts approved byproducts from separate requirements to provide human health or ecological risk assessments, site management plans, or environmental covenants.