Epa Gets Extra Month to Draft Hinkson Plan ; Officials to Meet in Kc Tomorrow.

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The Sierra Club has agreed to give the Environmental Protection Agency a one-month extension of a court-ordered Dec. 31 deadline to complete a pollution control plan for Hinkson Creek.

But representatives of Boone County government, the city of Columbia and the University of Missouri have pleaded for more than a year for a new study of the Hinkson's aquatic biology and hydrology before EPA enacts stormwater control requirements that local officials say could cost tens of millions of dollars.

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Epa Gets Extra Month to Draft Hinkson Plan ; Officials to Meet in Kc Tomorrow.

County, city and university officials are scheduled to meet with EPA regulators at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the EPA's Region 7 office in Kansas City, Kan. The meet...

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