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Winder wind-up n The two-year negotiations between the city and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences over the purchase of Ray Winder Field appear to be coming to a close. The city and UAMS have finally settled on a sale price of $1,321,133; City Attorney Tom Carpenter said only minor clarifications need to be made to the document of sale. After City Manager Bruce Moore approves the document it will be sent to UAMS. Carpenter says the City Board might be able to take action on the agreement as soon as its second meeting in February (Feb. 22). The Ray Winder Project will be discussed at the Jan. 28 meeting of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees’ buildings and grounds committee.
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n We told you last week about a joint effort by the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to regulate reserve pits on natural gas drilling sites across the state. The pits are built to hold various types of fluids — some containing very dangerous chemicals — that are used or produced during drilling. Officials from AOGC and ADEQ told the Times the joint effort was aimed at better regulating what could be a source of water pollution. ADEQ has historically been short of inspection teams to regulate these and other pits, so the joint effort will aid in that. The reason for their cooperation was made a little more clear in a filing Tuesday by the League of Women Voters and the Sierra Club. They were commenting on the new rules passed to regulate the pits. They say AOGC’s new rule B-17 and AEDQ’s new Rule 34 were “promulgated in significant part to respond to an oil company challenge to the ADEQ’s regulatory authority; the oil producers argued that only AOGC could control their activities.” The case cited is ADEQ v. Oil Producers of Arkansas, from 2009. AOGC recently passed B-17 to set up regulations and institute penalties. ADEQ is adapting rule 34 from the agency’s general permit, which has been used since 2007 to regulate the pits. The League of Women Voters and the Sierra Club also maintain that the rules do “not sufficiently safeguard against dangerous leaks from waste pits.” Rule B-17 does not require that gas companies line all pits with a Continued on page 9
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