November 26, 2007

The Department of Environmental Quality and The Dow Chemical Company will be holding the next quarterly Midland/Saginaw/Bay City (Tri-Cities) Dioxin Community Meeting on Wednesday, November 28, at the Horizons Conference Center in Saginaw located at 6200 State Street. The meeting is open to the public and will run from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Staff from the DEQ, Department of Community Health, and Dow, with their consultants, will be available one-half hour before and one-half hour after the meeting for individual discussion with the public. Maps and other handout materials will be available for viewing and discussion.

Agenda items for the November 28 meeting include: Upper and Middle Tittabawassee River investigation work status and DEQ oversight comments; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), removal actions in the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers and EPA/DEQ oversight comments; an update on the Michigan State University Ecological Study; and an update on the Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The final hour of the meeting is set aside for questions and discussion on these and other topics.

The meeting agenda and related documents will be posted to the DEQ Web site prior to the community meeting at http://www.michigan.gov/deqdioxin and may be accessed by clicking on the "DEQ/Dow Community Involvement" and "Dow Off-site Corrective Action" Quick Links in the right navigation column. The next quarterly community meeting is scheduled to be held on February 7, 2008.

Editor's note: DEQ news releases are available on the department's Internet home page at www.michigan.gov/deq.

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Revised November 26, 2007 by Pat Watson