Comment submitted by C. McCullough

Document ID: EPA-HQ-ORD-2009-0934-0801
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Received Date: July 15 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: July 19 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 13 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 13 2010, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80b1a45b
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Based on the science, these permits cannot be issued. Some of the problems that are pervasive in all of these permits – heavy metal pollution downstream, the inability to restore healthy functioning streams to replace what has been lost – are problems that we just cannot engineer our way out of once a stream has been buried under millions of tons of rubble. The Obama Administration needs fix both the fill rule, under the Clean Water Act, and the buffer zone rule, under the Surface Mining Act. For too long, the coal industry has benefited from loopholes that no other industry enjoys. They bury streams with mining waste in violation of the Clean Water Act. They still lack any federal regulations for mercury pollution, a potent neurotoxin. They are allowed to dispose of toxic waste from their power plants (coal ash), with no federal regulations. It is time to close these loopholes, protect public health, and return the rule of law not just to Appalachia, but to all of America.

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