EPA said last year that the review does conclude that the $1.7 billion, six-year cleanup is working, and will accomplish its long-term goal of protecting human health and the environment when complete. “And we look forward to EPA promptly completing and issuing both documents.”ĮPA explains in the letter that completing the five-year report is taking longer than anticipated, given the number and complexity of comments submitted during the public comment period. “It expects to do so shortly and then will consider GE’s application for Certificate of Completion,” Behan says. GE Spokesman Mark Behan says EPA recently did advise that it would need a bit longer to complete its five-year review report. But in its Januletter to GE, it says that it is not ready to respond because it is has not yet finalized its second Five Year Review report for the Hudson River PCBs Superfund site, which it had wanted to do before deciding whether the PCB cleanup is complete. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a letter to the EPA, saying additional cleanup would accelerate recovery of the river and its resources.ĮPA received GE’s Remedial Action Completion Report, in which GE requested EPA’s Certification of Completion, January 3, 2017. Environmental Protection Agency has informed General Electric that its decision about whether to formally determine that the Upper Hudson River PCB cleanup is complete is delayed.
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