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Oklahoma group seeks stay of Ark. sewer-plant permit

By Associated Press
Published: 11/5/2009 5:55 PM
Last Modified: 11/5/2009 5:55 PM

Okla. group seeks stay of Ark. sewer-plant permit LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Oklahoma environmental group says it has asked the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission to suspend a permit granted more than two years ago for a sewage-treatment plant that would discharge into a tributary of the Illinois River, which flows into northeast Oklahoma.

Save The Illinois River, or STIR, said Thursday it had filed a request with the Arkansas agency to stay the permit granted to the Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority for a plant that would treat sewage from the city of Bentonville.

The Illinois watershed is at the heart of a suit now being tried in federal court at Tulsa. The state of Oklahoma has sued to stop several Arkansas-based poultry companies from spreading poultry litter on land in the watershed of the Illinois, which is listed as a scenic river in Oklahoma.

STIR said the permit for the sewage plant should be stayed until the federal Environmental Protection Agency develops standards for discharge of phosphorus. By Associated Press

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007, Tulsa (11/5/2009 10:51:02 PM)

your s#iting us right?

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