[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Michigan "State at odds with feds over Wurtsmith chemical contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State at odds with feds over Wurtsmith chemical contamination

by Beth LeBlanc
Detroit News (MI)
October 11, 2018


State officials and the Department of Defense remain deadlocked over whether the Air Force should accept more responsibility for cleaning up and paying for the chemical contamination in Oscoda after nearly a year in dispute resolution.

The ongoing disagreement between the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and federal officials was highlighted during last Friday's round table discussion with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Kalamazoo, where the Department of Defense was notably absent.

The head of Snyder’s PFAS task force, Carol Isaacs, said there was “discord” with the department. A July letter from Gov. Rick Snyder to Secretary of Defense James Mattis echoed the sentiment.

“…the DOD refuses to acknowledge its responsibility for the significant off-site contamination,” Snyder wrote. “This, in turn results in needless cost for the State of Michigan to address the source for contamination and an unwarranted delay in remediation efforts.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/10/12/state-feds-odds-wurtsmith-pfas-contamination/1604135002/

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