NCD980602163_19970930_Warren County PCB Landfill_SERB C_Letter from Mike Kelly to K. Elizabeth Kummling re public forum-OCR

State of North Carolina
Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
Division of Waste Management
James 8. Hunt, Jr., Governor
Wayne McDevitt, Secretary
William L. Meyer, Director DENR
30 September 1997
Ms. K. Elizabeth Kiimmling, B.Sc.
Manager, Permitting and Approvals
ECOLOGIC
143 Dennis Street
Rockwood, Ontario, Canada, NOB 2KO
Dear Ms. Kiimmling:
I received this morning via facsimile your letter of September 29, 1997 indicating your plans to
continue with a public forum in Warren County, NC this Thursday, October 2, 1997.
I was first made aware of ECO LOG I C's plans for such a meeting on Monday, September 22,
1997, in a letter from you. That same night, during a scheduled meeting of the Warren County
PCB Working Group, this issue was discussed by the group, and on Tuesday morning,
September 23, I relayed to you concerns brought up at that meeting.
We certainly agree that opportunities for education and the ability to share technical issues with
communities having waste facilities in their back yard are important, and hope that you are
successful in that endeavor. Let me, however, reiterate to you two primary issues of concern:
1) It should be made clear to those attending this meeting that this is an effort being
made by ECO LOGIC for opening channels of communication with residents of the area and that
ECO LOGIC is not there as a representative of the state or the Warren County Working
Group.
2) Likewise, it should be made clear to those attending that the ECO LOGIC process is
one of the technologies being considered for detoxification but a decision has not yet been
made as to which technology will be chosen.
Please call me should you have any questions.
Copy: Henry Lancaster, Dollie Burwell '-.
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