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~. STATEa OF RICK SNYDER EXECUTIVE OFFICE BRIAN CALLEY GOVERNOR LT. GOVERNOR LANSING

July 31, 2018

VIA E-MAIL AND OVERNIGHT MAIL

Ms. Cathy Stepp, Regional Administrator Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 77 West Jackson Boulevard (R-19J) Chicago, 60604-3507

Dear Ms. Stepp:

This letter is being sent to provide the State of Michigan's support to nominate a site to the National Priorities List (NPL). Based on assessment data provided by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the United States Environmental Protection Agency is currently evaluating the McLouth Steel Corporation Trenton Plant site in Trenton, Wayne County, for potential listing on the NPL. The State of Michigan hereby supports the inclusion of this site in the next proposed NPL update.

Previous investigative work has determined that this site is heavily contaminated by former industrial practices and poses a public health hazard to area residents and the environmental resources along the Detroit River. Placing the site on the NPL is currently the most viable alternative for addressing the existing environmental problems at the site. The community has been working for many years to identify potential tools that would address the contamination issues at the site and lead to the safe reuse of the property. The enclosed resolutions from the City of Trenton, Township of Grosse lie, and City of Riverview support the inclusion of the site to the NPL.

Thank you for your consideration, and please continue to coordinate your agency's activities with the MDEQ.

Brian Calley Lieutenant Governor

Enclosures cc/enc: Ms. C. Heidi Grether, Director, MDEQ Mr. Aaron B. Keatley, Chief Deputy Director, MDEQ Ms. Susan Leeming, MDEQ Mr. Jack Schinderle, MDEQ Ms. Kathleen Shirey, MDEQ Mr. Josh Mosher, MDEQ Mr. David A. Kline, MDEQ Mr. Joseph Walczak, MDEQ

GEORGE W. ROMNEY BUILDING• 111 SOUTH CAPITOL AVENUE• LANSING, MICHIGAN 48909 www.michigan.gov CITY OF TRENTON . RESOLUTION NO. 2015·1

WHEREAS, the CITY OF TRENTON (11 City11) has within its corporate boundaries an approximately 199 acre site formerly occupied for 50 years by a steel mill operated by McLouth Steel Corporation, which site has a lengthy history of contamination adversely affecting the prospectf? ofredevelopment; and

WHEREAS, the property was subsequently acquired out of the bankruptcy of McLouth Steel Corporation by the TRENTON LAND HOLDINGS, LLC, aka Detroit Steel Company, LLC (DSC); and

WHEREAS, DSC has been unable to resurrect the integrated steel operation of McLouth into a viable and productive enterprise leaving an unsightly and contaminated collection of dilapidated buildings, abandoned rail track and piles of scrap littering the landscape adjacent to the City and along the Detroit River, an international waterway connecting the Great Lakes; and

WHEREAS, reclamation plans by private developers have failed because of the costs associated with the environmental cleanup of the site.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the City of Trenton does hereby petition the Honorable Rick Snyder, Governor of the State of Michigan, to support and endorse the addition of the former McLouth Steel sites, including those located at 1491 W. Jefferson Ave, Trenton MI., now owned by Trenton Land Holdings, LLC, to the National Priorities List (NPL).

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this petition be served on the Governor and Legislature of State of Michigan, the Michigan · Department of Environmental Quality Remediation and Redevelopment Division, and the County of Wayne; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City Clerk are hereby authorized and directed to execute and immediately deliver this Resolution of the City of Trenton to the persons and entities identified above.

ADOPTED, APPROVED AND .PASSED by the City Council of the City of Trenton this 5th day of January, 2015. ~~ /£)J JLI. -A 2 'fl. ~ Debra R. Devitt, Deputy City Clerk

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Resolution as passed by the City Council of the City of Trenton at a regular Council Meeting held in the City Council Room in said City on the 5th day ofJanuary, 2015. , bQ J.11.Jk!l pQ~ Debra R. Devitt, Deputy City Clerk