DALLAS - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Regions 4 & 6 - which includes Mississippi and Louisiana respectively - released its 2022 Year in Review outlining accomplishments and environmental progress over the past fiscal year. Accomplishments ranged from increasing EPA's presence in the "most impacted communities to developing a new air monitoring system for inspections to issuing the region’s first ever Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 3008 consent agreement for the Denka Performance Elastomers facility in St. John the Baptist Parish, La., says Region Administrator Dr. Earthea Nance. EPA used its authority to require the Denka to install fence-line monitors to identify sources of emissions, allowing EPA and communities to better understand air pollutants in a reliable way. Data is posted regularly to EPA's St. John the Baptist Parish website. EPA also issued an RCRA 3008 Consent Agreement requiring the Denka to improve its handling and disposal of chloroprene, the first ever such order in Region 6.
Last January in EPA Region 4, the administrator saw firsthand the water infrastructure challenges and their impacts in the Jackson, Miss., area have on the community. On Jan. 25, 2022, EPA issued a Notice of Noncompliance to the city for not timely repairing and maintaining equipment necessary to reliably produce drinking water. The administrator sent follow-up letters to elected officials to stress the importance of dedicating federal infrastructure funds, including nearly $79 million allocated to Mississippi from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to solve some of most dire water needs in Jackson and other areas of need across Mississippi. To read the full report, please visit webpage. (EPA 01/025/23)
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