Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)

Letter from David Gardiner to Virginia

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Washington, D.C. 20460

DEC 23 1996
OFFICE OF
POLICY, PLANNING AND EVALUATION
Virginia Wetherell, Secretary
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Majory Stoneman Douglas Building
3900 Commonwealth Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3000

Dear Ms. Wetherell:

Thank you for submission of Florida's proposal to conduct a state-wide XL project under the Project XL initiative. We appreciate your staff's efforts to prepare this proposal and to participate in continued dialogue on how states and EPA can promote innovative approaches to environmental protection.

I understand from my staff, that many of the issues that prompted Florida's XL proposal are being addressed through a performance partnership agreement between the State and EPA Region 4. We support these efforts and recommend that we pursue them in lieu of the Florida state-wide proposal. However, we anticipate continued work with Florida on the Berry Corporation XL project and future individual XL projects, and appreciate Florida's active role in the ECOS workgroup.

We thank you again for your efforts and look forward to working with you on other XL projects in the future. If you have further questions, please contact me at (202) 260-4332 or Lisa Lund, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Project XL, at (202) 260-2997.

Sincerely,

David Gardiner
Assistant Administrator

cc: Carol Browner, Administrator
Michael Phillips, Senior Executive Assistant, FDEP

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)

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