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EPA Provides Comment Period for Approval of Plan to Dispose of PCBs at Veolia Emerald Park Landfill

Posted on: Thursday, 27 December 2007, 18:00 CST

CHICAGO, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 is providing a comment period until Thursday, Jan.10, for the proposed plan to dispose of waste with less than 50 parts per million PCBs at the Veolia Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego, Wis.

The waste in question, containing less than 50 ppm PCBs, was generated last summer by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The contaminated sludge was inadvertently used to fertilize some school lawns and city parks. The mistake was discovered quickly, and PCB-contaminated soil was excavated from three sites. The proposed plan calls for the polluted soil dug up at the sites to be disposed of at Muskego's Veolia Emerald Park Landfill. People can comment on this plan from now until Jan. 10, 2008. Written comments on the proposed disposal plan can be sent to EPA in several ways:

-- e-mail to greensley.jean@epa.gov

-- mail to Jean Greensley, Toxics Section (LC-8J), EPA Region 5, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604-3590

-- use the online form at the Web site below -- fax your comments to 312-353-4788

EPA's draft proposal, other background information and the comment form can be viewed on EPA's Web site

http://www.epa.gov/region5/publiccomment/emeraldpark-pubcomment.htm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5

CONTACT: Karen Thompson of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,+1-312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov

Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire

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