Tuesday, November 18, 2003
DEQ open
house hearing set for Wednesday night
By the East
Oregonian
HERMISTON — The
Oregon Department of Environ- mental Quality has scheduled an open house,
presentation and public hearing beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in conference
room No. 5 at the Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston.
The open house/presentation portion of the meeting will provide
additional information about the draft post-trial burn risk assessment work
plan prepared by the agency for the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
near Hermiston.
A public hearing, beginning at 7:30 p.m., will offer an opportunity
for public comment on the workplan.
The DEQ conducted a pre-trial risk assessment in 1997 and had
originally planned to prepare addendums to that assessment after the facility
started operating. However, because of the availability of additional weather
data and improved air dispersion models as well as revised risk assessment
guidance documents published by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency the DEQ deemed it was necessary to conduct another risk assessment.
Comments may also be submitted by mail, email or fax to: Oregon
DEQ, Chemical Demilitarization Pro- gram, 256 East Hurlburt Avenue, Hermiston,
OR 97838, oliver.sue@ deq.state.or.us or 567-4741 (fax).
Written comments are due by 5 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1. For more
information about the risk assessment workplan please call Sue Oliver of
the DEQ's Hermiston office at 567-8297, ext. 26. |
