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Board member withdraws earlier support for accepting out‑of‑state licenses, raises concerns about outside contractors on local cleanups
Summary
At the meeting, Speaker 3 withdrew previous remarks about accepting other states’ licenses and warned that allowing out‑of‑state license recognition could bring inexperienced contractors to local EPA cleanup work and neighborhoods, citing examples of rented equipment and high costs.
Speaker 3 withdrew earlier comments about accepting licenses from other states and said doing so could invite firms unfamiliar with local cleanup work.
"I wanna withdraw some comments I made about accepting other states licensing, since they made it so difficult for us," Speaker 3 said, adding that "If we suddenly start accepting all licenses for other states, we'd have all kinds of different entities coming in here thinking we were pushed over." Speaker 3 raised concerns that some…
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