EPA seeks residents’ feedback on grants

By Bob Downing
The Akron Beacon Journal

COLUMBUS - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will accept comments through Saturday on a fund established in connection with fires and odors at a southern Stark County landfill.

Residents near the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township can submit their comments on criteria the agency should consider in awarding grants from the $250,000 Community Benefit Project Fund.

Republic Waste Services, the company that owns and operates the 258-acre landfill, was ordered in a March 28 agreement with the EPA to pay a $1 million fine, of which $250,000 would benefit communities in southern Stark and northern Tuscarawas counties....Read more.