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Department of Environmental Quality briefs committee on primacy, lab upgrade and federal funding uncertainty
Summary
DEQ Director Dave Glott and accounting director Beth Jacobson gave an agency overview, described status of a new state laboratory, permitting of large industrial projects and concerns about potential reductions in federal environmental funding.
Dave Glott, director of the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), told the Appropriations — Human Resources Division that the agency implements delegated federal programs (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and RCRA) under state primacy and that DEQ seeks to keep those programs local and responsive.
"If the state shows it has the capabilities, the expertise, the staffing, the state laws to implement those programs, EPA will delegate those programs to the state," Glott said, adding that state implementation provides better local accountability than direct federal administration. He described DEQ’s six divisions and 173 FTEs and highlighted recent permitting work including the Dakota Carbon Center (Project Tundra)…
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