Recreational Water Quality Criteria/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Releases Second Five-Year Report
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a May 2023 document titled: Report on the Second Five-Year Review of EPA’s Recreational Water Quality Criteria (“Report”) EPA states that the Report constitutes its second five-year review of the agency’s current Recreational Water…
Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Town of Wesson Enter into Agreed Order
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Town of Wesson, Mississippi (“Wesson”) entered into a May 5th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit. See Order No. 7252 23. The AO…
Alternative Daily Cover/Mississippi County Class I Landfill: Request to Use dried Drop Box Steel Sludge
Mississippi County, Arkansas, submitted a March 2nd request to the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) to continue the use of dried Drop Box sludge (“Sludge”) from the Nucor – Yamato steel mill as an alternative daily cover (“ADC”). The Sludge…
Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Tontitown Motion to Strike Motions to Dismiss/Alternative Motion to Extend Time
As previously noted in April 18th and April 19th blog posts, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals filed separate (two) Requests for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (collectively, “Petitions”) before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) challenging…
Transportation/Hazardous Materials: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Interpretive Letter Addressing Portable Emission Measurement System
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a May 8th letter a request for clarification of the Hazardous Materials Regulation (“HMR”) in terms of applicability to a Portable Emission Measurement System (“PEMS”). PHMSA was responding to a March 27th email…