Army Corps presses EPA to revive vetoed Miss. flood project

摘要

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.