What are EPA’s plans to complete the site assessments of all the units with a high or significant hazard potential rating?
EPA will assess by the end of the calendar year all of the units that had a dam hazard potential rating of ‘high’ or ‘significant’ in the responses provided by electric utilities to EPA’s information request. Since electric utilities have provided EPA with responses to EPA’s information request, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has re-rated 5 of its units as High Hazard Potential and 13 of its units as Significant Hazard Potential. TVA is assessing its CCR management units and in 2010, EPA will evaluate reports on those units and all of the information available on the TVA units and determine the appropriate next steps. All field work is being conducted by engineering firms with specific experience in determining the structural stability of the impoundments. If a management unit has a hazard potential rating of high or significant and had not undergone a state or federal dam structural integrity inspection (that is,an inspection where the unit was looked at for structural issues, a
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