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From: Kritzer, Jamie [/D=[XCHANG[LAB5/OU=EXCHANGEADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 8/24/I0I71I:39:19PM
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
Well, I seem to call everyone "little buddy." So, "Skipper" seems fitting.
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 20178:38AK8
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
I answer to both! Been called Skipper rnany tirnes.
From: Kritrer, IBmie
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 8:37AM
To: Skipper, Bess
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
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From: Skipper, Bess [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 7:21 AM
To: Kritzer, Jamie <jam ie.kritzer@ ncdenr.gov>
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 [mailto:[e-mail]]
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:
Jamie,
Could you confirm this highlighted information below. Just want to make sure
you were quoted correct],,
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records from DEQ, with an August 22 deadline. The records requests included
permits, en,,ironmental 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 inyestigative
.d.e.i.p.a.n.d., requesting that Chemours produce documents related to GenX's
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 Gen
While Stein's office and DEQ are on opposite sides of a records collection process,
they have each confirtned 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.
Themours 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 m® which
carries weight similar to a subpoena, Stein indicated that his of ce's investigation
centered around Chemours' marketing of GenX as a safer, more sustainable
alternative to PFOA, a chemical also known as C8 that Chemours phased out
around 2oo8 in the face of mounting 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 loo miles up the Cape Fear Ili-v-er from
Wilmington.
Asked. specifically Tuesday whether Chemours, as part of its stated efforts to
continue working with local, state and federal officials to address GenX, had
responded to the investigate demand, a company spokesman wrote, IATe
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 issue.da &Ae'ral-,nrind jury subpQena requesting a number of
records from DEQ, with an August 22 deadline. The records requests included
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permits, environmental compliance information, reports and correspondence
about Gen X and the plant where it is created.
As DEQ works to turn documents over to the federal attorneys, legislators are
continuing their own re-%,-iew 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 -inade cheinical'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 vvill 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-Henderson), 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."
During g ijsit to Wil i i on about a month -and -a -half after the first
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reporting about GenX appeared, Gov. Rov Cooper announced plans to request
about $2.6 million in funding to allow for permanent GenX testing, the addition
of 16 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
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