Public Meeting On Fox River Superfund Site Set For Thursday In Green Bay, Wis. (WI)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 10-OPA143
Chicago (Nov. 16, 2010) --- U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region 5, along with the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Justice, will hold a
public meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 18, to provide information
and answer questions about a recent legal agreement concerning the
Lower Fox River and Green Bay Superfund site. A consent decree with
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP was announced in
October.
In the proposed settlement, Georgia-Pacific
would agree that it is liable for cleanup work at the site and pay
$7 million to reimburse a portion of the government’s unpaid
past and future costs. The cleanup area is in the vicinity of
Georgia-Pacific’s paper mill in Green Bay.
Georgia-Pacific is one of several companies EPA
is holding responsible for contaminating the river with
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). A large amount of cleanup and
natural resource restoration already has been done in the area
under a set of partial legal settlements and an EPA administrative
order. The government filed a lawsuit in October against a dozen
Fox River polluters, including Georgia-Pacific, to seek more
cleanup funding and payment for damage to natural
resources.
The meeting will begin with a short
presentation, followed by a question and answer
session.
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Thursday, Nov. 18
Place: Brown County Library Meeting Room, 515
Pine St., Green Bay, Wis.
People who need special accommodations at the
meeting should contact EPA Community Involvement Coordinator Susan
Pastor, 800-621-8431, Ext. 31325, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays,
or [email protected]. More information about the Fox River
Superfund site can be found on EPA’s website at https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-5.
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