United States
Environmental Protection Agency

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)was created by Congress to protect human health and the environment.In the early eighty's EPA was involved in filling a law suit against Westinghouse Electric Corporation over the PCB problems in Monroe and Owen counties. The law suit was dropped when EPA signed the consent decree in 1985. The current EPA Project Manager is :

Thomas S Alcamo
SR-6J
USEPA REGION 5
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60604-3507
alcamo.thomas@epa.gov
312-886-7278

EPA is responsible for total oversight of testing, sampling and cleanup of the PCB sites. EPA has the legal ability to force the cleanup and to insure Westinghouse and the other parties meet federal regulations concerning all issues relating to the cleanup process. EPA has provided COPA with a technical assistance grant (TAG) to hire technical assistance in understanding and participating in the current process. Technical advisors will help COPA make comments to the EPA at appropriate times during the process.