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Friday, November 12, 2010
Environment - 15 years after they expired, IDEM issues draft permits for two NWI steel mills
So reports Gitte Laasby in yesterday's Gary Post-Tribune in a story that begins:
BURNS HARBOR -- After a 15-year delay, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management publicized draft wastewater permits late Tuesday for two Northwest Indiana steel mills -- ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor and U.S. Steel Midwest.IDEM is soliciting public comments on the permits, which have been backlogged since the ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor permit expired in August 1993 and the U.S. Steel Midwest in 1995.
The agency has been working its way through backlogged permits for years, but progress on major permits slowed after public furor about BP Whiting's wastewater permit in 2007 and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's objections to U.S. Steel Gary Works' draft permit in 2007.
This time, IDEM is trying to avoid such controversy by involving environmentalists early and by getting an official confirmation letter from EPA that the feds won't object.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 12, 2010 08:27 AM
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