Public comment extended 30 days on Dow Chemical dioxin settlement

By Jeff Kart | The Bay City Times October 29, 2009, 2:48PM

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period by 30 days for a pending settlement with the Dow Chemical Co. of Midland over dioxin contamination in the Saginaw River watershed.

The extension is due to a request from the community, EPA officials said in an e-mail sent out this afternoon. Comments now will be taken until Dec. 17. They were to be due Nov. 17.

The proposed settlement — already agreed to verbally by the EPA, DEQ and Dow — outlines a process for evaluating and cleaning up historic dioxin contamination in the Tittabawassee River and Saginaw River and Bay.

A public meeting on the proposed administrative order on consent with Dow is set for 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at Saginaw Valley State University's Curtiss Hall.

An "availability session" with state Department of Environmental Quality officials is set for 6 p.m. in a banquet room next to the hearing room in Curtiss Hall. The early sesson is for state regulators to give an update on ongoing Dow corrective action work, officials said.
 

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