Exhibits to Written Testimony of Dr. Mike D. McDaniel

Mike D. McDaniel, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, testified at a field hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in New Orleans on Monday, Feb. 26. Attached below is the written.

  1. LDEQ Seventh Amended Declaration of Emergency and Administrative Order: Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath, August 28, 2006
  2. LDEQ Eighth Amended Declaration of Emergency and Administrative Order: Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath, January 19, 2007
  3. LAC 33.VII.115
  4. LDEQ Operation and On-Site Closure Approval: Gentilly Landfill, September 19, 2005
  5. Debris Management Plan
    a. LDEQ Debris Management Plan, September 28, 2005, revised October 14, 2005
    b. LDEQ Debris Mgmt Plan ATTACHMENTS 1-8
  6. LDEQ Emergency Disaster Cleanup Site Request Form
  7. FEMA Emergency Debris Management Site Certification form
  8. LDEQ Cradle To Grave Hurricane Generated C&D Debris Oversight
  9. Emergency Disaster Cleanup Site Request for Gentilly Landfill, September 27, 2005
  10. LDEQ Order Authorizing Commencement of Operation: Gentilly Landfill, September 29, 2005
  11. EPA memorandum on Gentilly Landfill and CERCLA liability, November 11, 2005
  12. LDEQ, LDHH, ATSDR, CDC, USEPA and FEMA Environmental Assessment Summary, December 9, 2005
  13. LDEQ Solid Waste Type III permit issued to Gentilly Landfill, December 28, 2004
  14. LDEQ Arsenic Sampling Results and Explanation, January 10, 2006
  15. Gentilly Landfill
    a. LDEQ Administrative Order: Revocation of Order Authorizing Commencement of Operation & Authorization for Utilization of Gentilly Landfill for Disposal of Hurricane Generated Construction and Demolition Debris, January 20, 2006
    b. LDEQ Revocation Gentilly Landfill - Decision with Reasons 1-20-06
  16. Emergency Disaster Cleanup Site Request for Chef Menteur site, February  14, 2006
  17. LDEQ press release entitled “DEQ puts comprehensive sampling-result maps on Web site”, February 15, 2006 
    a. Zip Code 70126: Data Summary | Map | Sampling Sites
    b. Zip Code 70032: Data Summary | Map | Sampling Sites
    c. Zip Code 70043: Data Summary | Map | Sampling Sites
    d. Zip Code 70122: Data Summary | Map | Sampling Sites
  18. LDEQ press release entitled “DEQ refutes claims in FEMA report concerning Gentilly Landfill”, February 16, 2006
  19. LDEQ Administrative Order: Gentilly Landfill, April 3, 2006
  20. LDEQ Order Authorizing Commencement of Operation: Chef Menteur Landfill, April 13, 2006
  21. LDEQ Chef Menteur decisional document in English, April 26, 2006
  22. LDEQ Public Participation notice for Chef Menteur decisional document
  23. Report of Geotechnical Investigation Gentilly Landfill Slope Stability Analyses, July 25, 2006
  24. CDC Letter to NRDC, August 2006
  25. EPA’s “Summary Results of Sediment Sampling Conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita”, August 17, 2006
  26. LDEQ Debris Management Plan, August 25, 2006
  27. LDEQ Gentilly Landfill revised decisional document, August 28, 2006
  28. LDEQ Administrative Order: Gentilly Landfill, August 28, 2006
  29. LDEQ Public Participation notices for Gentilly Landfill
  30. Exhibit 30
    a. LDEQ Briefing in NO - Area Environmental Review and Summary 8-24-06
    b. LDEQ “Hurricane Report ONE YEAR LATER,” Fall 2006
  31. Bureau of National Affairs, Daily Environment Report Vol. 6, No. 214, “An Evaluation of Chemical Contamination in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina”, Nov. 6, 2006
  32. LDEQ Secretary’s Message, Dec. 13, 2006
  33. FEMA Situation Report dated February 9, 2007
  34. Letters to Editors:
    a. To The Washington Post re Gentilly Landfill from Mike McDaniel, Ph.D., Nov. 7, 2005
    b. To numerous newspapers re Alarmists from Mike McDaniel, Ph.D., Dec. 30, 2005
    c. To The Advocate re New Orleans landfills from Mike McDaniel, Ph.D., July 19, 2006
    d. To The Times-Picayune re Gentilly Landfill from Darin Mann (LDEQ Press Secretary), Nov. 21, 2006
  35. Instruction sheet for segregation of waste
  36. LDEQ Informational Session: Overview of Environmental Sampling Post Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 24, 2006
  37. Construction and Demolition Landfill and Storm Debris Management Update: January 25, 2007
  38. LDEQ Environmental Justice Listening Session, February 13, 2007
  39. LDEQ Radiological Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

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