in tennessee, tva continues after king stones to store coal ash in unlined polluting pits. local citizens groups enforce the clean water act. only in response to that pressure the state of tennessee has now confirmed under oath that tva has and is violating tennessee environmental laws by its coal ash storage on the cumberland river near nashville. in the south we have seen people must have the power to protect themselves and to enforce the law. the citizens right to enforce a new epa rule is a principle reason to have hope that these minimum federal criteria will play a role in cleaning up a legacy of dangerous coal ash storage in our southeast. thank you. >> thank you, sir. i recognize myself for five minutes for the first round of questioning. first question for miss johnson. how would your company make compliance if florida sets requirements that are not exactly the same, even if they are more stringent than the final rule? >> thank you, mr. chairman. it would be a challenge. clearly we would have to comply with both sets of rules. whatever the requirements would be, if

line, unlined, addressing those issues. we included in that language -- because i've heard you say it several times here about the siding restrictions in that language. but didn't your group oppose the bill? either one of you? >> we certainly did. and we'd continue to do that. the siding restrictions in that legislation we don't think were comparable to the -- >> okay. the reason that i raise these issues to you -- if i could recover my time, please. if we don't pass legislation, we stay the way we've been since the '60s. that hasn't worked. that's what's caused a lot of these issues. we're trying to find a way to get a resolution, and we're trying to find a solution. here was a bill. if we have to tweak it -- defeat it as they did over in the senate, that wasn't productive. we had a bill. we're going to do it again this year. i hope that people that have some concerns work with us because we've got to reach certainty. i heard all the testimony. we've got to find a way to close the door so the people that are making the inv

in tennessee they continue to store coal ash in unlined hits. local citizens groups and forced a clique -- and forced -- enfor ced a clean water act. the state has confirmed they have been violating tennessee environmental laws by coal ash storage on the cumberland river near nashville. in the south we have seen the people must have the power to protect themselves and enforce the law. the citizens right to enforce the new epa rule is a principal reason to have hope that this criteria will have a role in cleaning up a legacy of dangerous coal ash storage. >> thank you. the first question for ms. johnson, how would your company make compliance decisions if the florida department of environmental protection sets requirements that are not exactly the same, even if they are more stringent than the final rule? >> it would be a challenge. we would have to comply with both sets of rules and what the requirements would be. if one was more stringent, we would look to comply with the stringent rule except we would know there would be a potential of having

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including the retroactive application of location or siding restrictions and the requirement that unlined -- with no opportunity to remedy the problem through corrective action. last but not least, epa has removed flexibility of the correction action program as it exists for other programs under subtitle d. it is understandable that the agency may feel the need to tighten certain restrictions because the rule itself implementing. however, by removing flexibility regarding the boundary which compliance must be demonstrated and flexibility to determine the appropriate clean-up levels and eliminating cause and effect that can be considered in completing corrective action, the final rule jeopardizes the future of risk based cleanup decisions at coal ash disposal units. the removal of this flexibility also creates uncertainty with respect to ongoing cleanups at coal ash disposal facilities. while we acknowledge the amount of time and effort epa put into drafting the final rule, because of the significant limitations of the rule we still believe that a legislative solution might be required tha

the utilities have dug unlined pits in the wetlands and right beside our drinking water resources. they have put millions of tons of industrial waste containing toxic like arrest any and led into these unlined pits and they have filled them full of water. these millions of wet tons of waste are contained only by earthen dikes that leak. the toxic substances in this industrial waste leech into the groundwater which then flows into the river