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The Region 6 Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a July 25th news release stating it had awarded $167,888 to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) that would address:

. . . programs that oversee the handling of solid and hazardous waste.

ADEQ has been delegated for many years the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Hazardous Waste program which it implements pursuant to Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Regulation No. 23.

EPA states that the grant is part of a total of $776,794 that will “support ADEQ’s hazardous waste facility inspections, enforcement actions, corrective actions, permitting, state authorization, and program management during the state’s 2019 fiscal year.”

A copy of the news release can be found here.