The Army Corps of Engineers has been pushing EPA to reopen its veto of acontroversial flood protection project in Mississippi over the past year,according to documents received under a Freedom of Information Actrequest.The Army Corps Vicksburg District has done a new analysis of the wetlandsthat would be affected if the controversial Yazoo Backwater Area PumpsProject were constructed, which it believes justifies EPA taking a secondlook at the project, according to a January letter from then-VicksburgDistrict Cmdr. Maj. Gen. Richard Kaiser to EPA Region 4 chief Mary Walker.
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