[Green] Regarding the barge docking facility south of Marietta...

[Darryl Ting]

Fellow Greenies,
I suggest a more leveraged approach would be to call our OH senator Jarred
Brown and request his help in contacting the USACE to reject the permit.
Senators have a lot of weight in the regulatory process.  His office
staffers will usually follow up for more details.  I called in early May
and got a recording.  Left a message but got no call back.  Maybe if more
of us called.
Darryl

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 11:18 AM Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> Good morning, Green friends,
>
> I got a call back this morning from Kayla Adkins at the Huntington, WV,
> office of the Army Corps of Engineers.
>
> Yesterday, I called the Army Corps in Washington, D.C. regarding permit
> LRH2020293OHR, the request to build a barge-docking facility south of
> Marietta, where fracking waste would be transferred from barges to trucks
> for disposal locally. I left a voice message asking whether the public
> comment period had been extended beyond May 6, and whether our request for
> a public hearing had been granted.
>
> Ms. Adkins said the possibility of a public hearing was still being
> discussed. (I expressed gratitude and support.) She said the public comment
> period was NOT extended. However, and I’m coming close to quoting here:
> “Any further comments she receives about the project will be considered
> during their continuing evaluation, a different phase of the permitting
> process.” I asked her if that meant I should submit another letter, and she
> said no—not if it says the same thing as my first letter. But if I have new
> or additional insights, information, or thoughts about the project, I
> should send them to her for consideration and inclusion, and those who have
> not commented are welcome to email her, as well.
>
> So, like, even though the public comment period is closed, she told me
> that they’re still accepting public comment. Go figure.
>
> She also said that she had received “a lot” of comments about the project.
>
> After our phone conversation, she emailed me (to make sure I had her email
> address). Here’s what she said—along with her email address:
>
> **
>
> Good morning,
>
> Here is my email address again so it is fresh in your inbox. If you have
> any additional concerns about the proposal you may send them to my
> attention at this email address. We will inform those that submitted
> comments during the public notice comment period once a decision is made
> about the request for a public hearing.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kayla N. Adkins
> Regulatory Project Manager
> North Branch
> U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
> Huntington District
> 502 8th Street
> Huntington, WV 25701
> 304-399-5850
> 304-399-5085 (fax)
> Kayla.N.Adkins at usace.army.mil
>
>
> ***
>
> So, if you haven’t already written to her with your comments about the
> fracking-waste-barge offloading facility, now is your chance!  Or if you
> have, but you’d like to give her and her colleagues even more reasons why
> this is not desirable for our community, please email her soon!
>
> I asked her for a cut-off date, when she would no longer accept public
> comments, but she said that date was not set. I inferred that she would
> accept them until they have their meeting to make a decision on a public
> hearing, or maybe until they meet to discuss whether to permit this
> facility. Whatever, I would encourage anyone inclined to write to DO SO
> SOON!!!
>
> —dawn. who would be working
>
>
>
>
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