JMay comment on MHA Nation FEIS

October 28, 2009 Cooperating Agency: Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation New Town, North Dakota Lead Agencies: Mike Black Great Plains Regional Office Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 115 4th Avenue, SE Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 Steve Wharton U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 (8P-HW) 1595 Wynkoop St Denver, Colorado 80202-1129 Submitted by email to wharton.steve@epa.gov Re: Comments on Final EIS for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation Proposed Clean Fuels Refinery Project Dear Representatives of the MHA Nation, the BIA and EPA, Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed new MHA Nations Clean Fuels Refinery (“the Project”). Because of my engineering background and experience over the last 20 years analyzing oil industry 1emissions and environmental impacts, I have been asked by members of the MHA Nations and by the Environmental Integrity Project to review and comment on the FEIS. I also submitted comments on August 29, 2006 regarding the Draft EIS for the Project. As I will discuss below, the FEIS does not adequately address the concerns raised in the August 29, 2006 comments. Those comments are attached to this document and fully incorporated herein. The August 29, 2006 comments include information and data that have not been adequately addressed by the 2FEIS and continue to be a basis for the concerns raised in this these comments. ...