John Shimkus: “I will just tell my friend from Florida, H.R. 2273 includes structural integrity inspection requirements on impoundments…”

“I will just tell my friend from Florida, H.R. 2273 includes structural integrity inspection requirements on impoundments that do not exist today. They allow only those facilities that are structurally sound and operating in a protective manner to continue to operate. In this Kingston debate, what is never mentioned is that in the cleanup of the Kingston spill, all that waste went into nonhazardous landfills because they were not hazards. This is really a debate about hazardous and nonhazardous. EPA has numerous times ruled that coal combustion residual is not hazardous. That's why there's confusion. I yield 2 minutes to my colleague, also a member of the committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Olson).”