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• HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECT: USE OF CORPS OF ENGINEERS NATIONWIDE WETLAND PERMITS
  Posted April 18, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  Section 404 of the Clean Drinking Water Act (“CDWA”) requires that a permit be obtained from the U.S. Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) prior to the discharge of dredge or fill into a “water of the …

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• RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION: SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD DECISION AFFECTING SOLID WASTE TRANSFER FACLITIES
  Posted April 18, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright 

  The Clean Railroads Act (“Act”) of 2008 amended 49 U.S.C. § 10-501(c)(2) to restrict the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board (“STB”) over solid waste rail transfer facilities.  The Act also added three new statutory …

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• COMMENTS ON ADEQ’S PROPOSED REVISIONS TO AIR REGULATIONS 18, 19, AND 26
  Posted April 15, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) has previously petitioned the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) to amend Regulation Nos. 18, 19, and 26.  The purpose of the agency’s proposed revisions are to …

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• CLEAN AIR ACT OIL AND GAS AGGREGATION ISSUE: EPA ORDER DENYING PETITION TO OBJECTION TO TITLE V PERMIT
  Posted April 15, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  On February 2, 2011 the federal Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator denied a petition to object to a Title V Permit that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment proposed to issue to Anadarko …

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• CLEAN AIR ACT TITLE V PETITIONS TO OBJECT
  Posted April 15, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  As noted in a previous blog item, the federal Clean Air Act Title V program includes a provision that allows the federal Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator to object to a Title V Permit issued …

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• CERCLA ARRANGER LIABILITY: PAPER SCRAP AND TRIMMINGS
  Posted April 15, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Act (“CERCA”) contribution actions are being litigated related to a Wisconsin Superfund site known as the Fox River Site.  The Fox River Site encompasses an approximately 40 mile stretch of …

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• BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT TO HOLD FORUM ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND NATUAL GAS PRODUCTION
  Posted April 14, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  Andrew Parker, Regulatory Counsel for the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, was kind enough to forward a Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) News Release that states the federal agency will hold a public forum at …

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• ARKANSAS ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION REGULATED WASTE AND WATER UPDATE WORKSHOPS
  Posted April 14, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  The Arkansas Environmental Federation will hold consecutive seminars on May 18th and May 19th addressing regulated waste and water respectively.  The Regulated Waste seminar on May 18th will discuss:

  1)  A discussion by three Arkansas Department …

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• EPA AND OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ADDRESSING NATUAL GAS EXTRACTION/PRODUCTION
  Posted April 14, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  Mr. Robert Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Oklahoma Corporation Commission testified on April 12, 2011 before the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife Committee on Environment and Public Works of …

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• FEDERAL CLEAN WATER ACT STORMWATER ENFORCEMENT: NEW HAMPSHIRE SCRAP YARD
  Posted April 14, 2011
  

  Author: Walter G. Wright

  Over the last several years enforcement of most Clean Water Act stormwater permits in Arkansas has been undertaken by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”).  This is logical since Arkansas has been delegated the …

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