AUGUSTA — The Maine Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste will meet Wednesday, Aug. 15, at Greenbush, so that members and interested members of the public can tour a closed low-level radioactive waste-disposal facility.

The group is to assemble at 10:45 a.m. at the Greenbush Town Hall and visit the former disposal facility, which is located in part of a former state forest nursery off Goulds Ridge Road.

Town officials and representatives of the University of Maine, which sent waste to the disposal facility between 1960 and 1978, will lead the tour. After the tour, the commission will meet at 1 p.m. at the Greenbush Town Hall for a discussion of the waste facility.

An issue pertaining to the Greenbush facility is whether the waste should be left where it is or dug up and moved to some other facility.

The university is carrying out a legislative order to evaluate the Greenbush site and to prepare a closing plan, although engineers have recommended spending more money on test wells than is available.

The advisory commission also is scheduled to hear reports from State Geologist Walter Anderson on work of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority and from Robert Moldaver of the Maine Nuclear Referendum Committee. The advisory commission also will discuss liability issues in low-level radioactive waste disposal.