On Sept. 1, 2011, DOE and GSA submitted a Class 3 Permit Modification request to the Department and EPA, requesting to modify DOE's hazardous waste permits to, among other things, include the entire Bannister Federal Complex, including the property owned by GSA, on the permits and include GSA as a permittee. The draft permit modifications prepared by the department and EPA propose to conduct further environmental investigation, monitoring, risk-assessment and cleanup at the federal complex under one set of comprehensive hazardous waste permits.

Electronic copies of the draft permit modifications are available on the Department's website at http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/permits/notices.htm.

If you would like to receive notices from the MDNR or DOE/GSA on major permitting or cleanup activities at the facility, please call or write the MDNR to request to have your name placed on DOE/GSA's mailing list. If you have any questions about the draft Part I PermitModifications, or would like to obtain a written copy of the draft Part I or Part II PermitModifications for review, please contact Mr. Donald L. Dicks, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Hazardous Waste Program, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176, by telephone at (573) 751-3553 or 1-800-361-4827, or by e-mail at don.dicks@dnr.mo.gov. If you have any questions about the draft Part II Permit Modifications, please contact Mr. Robert Aston, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7, Waste Remediation and Permitting Branch, 901 North Fifth Street, Kansas City, KS 66101, by telephone at (913) 551-7392 or 1-800-223-0425, or by e-mail at aston.robert@epa.gov. Thank you.