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Published March 26, 2008 11:23 pm - Cherokees to re-open landfill operation near Stilwell By Donna Hales Phoenix Staff Writer
Cherokee Nation Businesses plans to re-open the tribal landfill near Stilwell with construction of a $15 million additional waste disposal cell, CNB officials announced in a media release. CNB is owned by the Cherokee Nation. It receives $70 million annually under the Jobs Growth Act for job creation and growth, said Councilor Bill John Baker. CNB Chief Executive Officer Brad Carson said Wednesday re-opening the facility will help local communities in Adair, Cherokee and Delaware counties that were customers until the landfill shut down last fall when it became full. The Cherokee Nation Environmental Protection Commission approved letting CNB build the new cell and re-open the site. It is estimated the new cell could last 20 years. CNB committed to develop the landfill based on a plan in place for years that was not fully developed by the previous landfill operator. “Cherokee Nation has the responsibility to take care of the landfill, and CNB is fulfilling that commitment,” Mark Green, chairman of the Cherokee Nation EPC, is quoted in the CNB release. Carson said the Cherokee Nation EPC put strong environmental compliance restrictions in place as part of the permitting process with CNB, the statement reads. Carson could not be reached for further comment. But community activist and Cherokee Nation tribal member Jack Crittenden submitted a copy of his argument to Cherokee Nation EPC against the issuance of its permit modification. The permit application was never approved by Cherokee Nation EPC and had 68 omissions or incomplete pieces of information, according to engineering firm Aquaterra in a review of the application, Crittenden argued. Daniel B. Stephens & Associates Inc., another engineering firm, agreed in March 2006 that the application at that time was not satisfactory for approval. “If it’s determined by two engineering firms that the permit application is not satisfactory for approval how can it be modified until it is approved?” Crittenden asked the permitting group. The landfill has been operating under a conditional interim permit authorized by Cherokee Nation EPC on July 7, 2005. While the interim permit has been in force, the landfill was fined $1.65 million for various violations and ignored that fine and many other notices of violations, never submitting a complete permit application or master plan, Crittenden said. 
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