(AP) -- TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The federal government hopes a
long-delayed cleanup of dioxin contamination near a Dow Chemical
Co. plant in Michigan will begin this fall.
Environmental Protection Agency officials presented a timeline
for the cleanup during a public meeting Wednesday at Saginaw Valley
State University.
Robert Sussman is senior policy counsel to Environmental
Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson. He said EPA is opening an
office in the Midland-Saginaw-Bay City area and will have permanent
staff there.
Sussman said despite many years of disappointment, local
residents can be assured the cleanup will go forward.
Dioxin from the Midland-based company's plant in that city has
contaminated a 50-mile-long watershed including the Tittabawassee
and Saginaw rivers and part of Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay.
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