[StBernard] Emergency Response News Advisory (HQ): Administrator Jackson Tours Areas Potentially Impacted by BP Spill

[Westley Annis]

Administrator Jackson Tours Areas Potentially Impacted by BP Spill 

WASHINGTON – EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson is touring areas in
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana that could be impacted by the oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico today and tomorrow. 

Today, Administrator Jackson joined U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for an overflight of the
oil spill, and a meeting with state and local officials.  Later today, the
Administrator will tour a stretch of the Mississippi coastline that could be
impacted by the spill and hold a community meeting in Waveland, Miss. to
discuss the spill and the government’s response. The Administrator will also
visit EPA employees at a mobile air monitoring station that EPA has
established in the area. 

Tomorrow, the Administrator will hold an 8:30 a.m. meeting with community
leaders in New Orleans. The Administrator will also tour Plaquemines Parish
in New Orleans and meet with representatives of the fishing, oyster and
shrimping industries. Additional details on those visits will be released as
they become available. 

April 30, 2010 

  
4:00 p.m. CST		Administrator Jackson Holds Community Meeting 
       Leo Seals Community Center 
527 Hwy 90 
       	Waveland, Miss. 

May 1, 2010 

  
8:30 a.m. CST 		Administrator Jackson Holds Community Meeting 
			Greater Little Zion Baptist Church 
       5130 Chartres St. 
       New Orleans, La. 

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