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From: Kritzer, Jamie [/D=[XCHANG[LAB5/OU=EXCHANGEADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 8/24/I0I71I:37:10PM
To: Skipper, Bess [Bess.3kipper@chanecoom]
Subject: RE: The state agency started turning records (GenX) over Monday and will continue to do so on a rolling basis
Realizing I should have said "Bess, yes that's accurate.
Jamie Kritzer
Communications Director
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality
519-707-8602
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From: Skipper, Bess [naiko:8ess.Skipper@charteccom]
Sent: Thursday, August I4 20177J1AK8
To: Kritzer, Jamie [e-mail]>
Subject: RE: The state agency started turning records (GenX) over Monday and will continue to do so on a rolling basis
Thank YOU
From: Kritzer, Jamie
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:42 PM
To: Skipper, Bess
Subject: Re: The state agency started turning records (GenX) over Monday and will continue to do so on a rolling basis
Skipper,
Yes. That's accurate.
Jamie
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On Aug 23, 2017, at 3:31 PM, "Skipper, Bess" <[e-mail]> wrote:
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you were quoted correctly.
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records from DECK, with an August 22 deadline. The records requests included
permits, en-vironmental compliance information, reports and correspondence
about GenX and the plant where it is created.
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Bess Skipper I Assignment Manager 1866--963--9714
Spectrum News
[e-mail]
2321 Scientific Park Dr. I Wilmington, NC 28405
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RALEIGH -- Federal and state attorneys continue to work on collecting
information related to GenX, as the results from a pair of sweeping document
requests have started to trickle in.
In late July, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein issued an invgsugative,
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dem,m.
id requesting that Chemours produce documents related to GenX's
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safety, how it compares to older chemicals and its health risks. Days later, an
attorney from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued
a subpoena to the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), requesting
the agency turn over records ranging from field inspectors notes to groundwater
data to -- among a number of other items -- anything that could mention GenX.
While Stein's office and DECK are on opposite sides of a records collection process,
they have each confirmed the process of gathering documents and responding to
the requests is ongoing.
The deadline for Chemours to respond. to the investigative demand was Monday.
Laura Brewer, an Attorney General's Office spokeswoman, said the office is
continuing to work with the company to procure the records.
"Chemours will provide documents on a rolling basis," she said. "We will review
them as we receive them and. remain in communication with the company."
In his initial announcement that he was issuing the investigate demand -- which
carries weight similar to a subpoena, Stein indicated that his office's investigation
centered around Chemours' marketing of GenX as a safer, more sustainable
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alternative to PFOA, a chemical also known as C8 that Chemours phased out
around 2oo8 in the face of inotinting legal struggles and health dangers. That
phasing out of C8 was what led Chemours in 2009 to start producing GenX at its
Fayetteville Works plant about too miles tip the Cape Fear River from
Wilmington.
Asked specifically'ruesday whether Chemours, as part of its stated efforts to
continue workingwith local, state and federal officials to address GenX, had
responded to the investigate demand, a company spokesman wrote, "We
continue to work closely with local, state and federal officials to determine the
appropriate next steps."
DEQ producing documents
As part of its investigation, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North
Carolina iss-ued. g fede gl..grg
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records from DEQ, with anik-UgUSt 22 deadline. The records requests included
permits, environmental compliance information, reports and correspondence
about GenX and the plant'"There it is created..
As DEQ works to turn documents over to the federal attorneys, legislators are
continuing their own review of the matter. Wednesday, the N.C. General
Assembly's Environmental Review Commission (ERC) will hold a hearing on
GenX in Wilmington, as well as the man-made chemical's impact on the area's
drinking water supplies.
The commission will hold a meeting from 1:30 to 5 p.m. at the New Hanover
County Government Center, 23o Government Center Drive, including a public
comment period. Before that meeting, the commission. will -visit Cape Fear Public
Utility Authority's Sweeney Water Treatment Plant so, according to a release,
members can learn more about the technology and its ability -- or lack thereof --
to remove GenX and other compounds from the area's drinking water.
`Prompt, effective response'
Chaired by Sen. Trudy Wade (R-Guilford) and co-chaired by Rep. Jimmy Dixon
(R-Duplin) and. Chuck McGrady (R-Hend.erson), the ERC has -- among other
powers -- the ability to review any action taken in the state that impacts the
environment or protection of the environment, while also studying whether state
agencies are able to perform their tasks or could do so either more efficiently or
more effectively.
Among the commission's duties laid out in its authorizing legislation is studying
whether the state is organized to protect the public and the environment as it
relates to "Prompt, effective response to environmental emergencies."
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During g ijsit to Wil i i oii about a month -and -a -half after the first
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reporting about Olen X appeared, Gov. Roy Cooper announced plans to request
about $2.6 million in funding to allow for permanent Genf' testing, the addition
of 1.6 water resources employees in DEQ and the formation of a water safety unit
in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
In an Aug. 14 letter to a group of state senators, DEQ Secretary Michael Regan
and DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen framed the administration's request, writing,
"The large scope and pressing nature of this challenge (water quality) requires a
larger response than our departments have resources to provide while continuing
to meet the day-to-day requirements."
Bess Skipper I Assignment Manager 1866-963-9714
Spectrum News
[e-mail]
2321 Scientific Park Dr, I Wilmington, NC 2840S
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