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NEW LOCATION: State reschedules public meeting on draft swine waste management permit

RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced a new location to obtain public input on the state’s draft swine waste management system general permit (AWG100000) for Nov. 27 in Clinton.

RELEASE: DEQ approves low-risk classification of seven coal ash impoundment facilities

RALEIGH─The N.C.

RELEASE: Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board to Meet Nov. 14

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board will hold its second meeting in Roxboro on Nov. 14.

MEDIA ADVISORY: N.C. Environmental Management Commission to meet Nov. 7-8

RALEIGH – The N.C. Environmental Management Commission will meet this week at the Archdale Building in downtown Raleigh. Commission committees will meet Wednesday, Nov. 7, with the full commission meeting Thursday, Nov. 8.

REMINDER: Public invited to comment on renewal permit for remedial activities at Badin Business Park (formerly Alcoa-Badin Works facility)

RALEIGH – The N.C. Division of Waste Management is seeking public feedback on a draft renewal permit to conduct remedial activities for contaminated soil and groundwater at the former Alcoa-Badin Works facility in Badin. The public comment period began Aug. 13 and was extended until Nov. 11 due to Hurricane Florence.

RELEASE: State seeks public feedback on H.F. Lee Plant draft consent order

RALEIGH─ The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has opened a second comment period and rescheduled a public hearing to gather comments on a proposed draft special order by consent for Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee Plant in Goldsboro. The original dates were cancelled due to hurricane impacts last month. The new public comment period will be open Oct. 31 through Dec. 7.

RELEASE: State Science Advisory Board seeks public input on draft trichloroethylene report

Officials with the N.C. Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board are asking the public for input on a report that will provide recommendations on the science and policies supporting trichloroethylene, or TCE, short-term inhalation action levels, as well as rapid response guidance for residential and occupational receptors.

MEMO: DEQ Comments on Proposed Rule to Relax CAFE, CO2 Emissions in Cars, Light Trucks

MEMO

To: Interested Parties

From: Megan Thorpe, Communications Director

Date: October 26, 2018

ADVISORY: State reschedules public meeting on draft swine waste management permit

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has rescheduled a meeting to obtain public input on the state’s draft swine waste management system general permit (AWG100000) for Nov.

MEDIA ADVISORY: North Carolina Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board to meet Oct. 22

The state Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board will meet on Monday in Raleigh to discuss the board’s GenX report, as well as emerging contaminants methyl bromide, hexavalent chromium and trichloroet