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HYDE-SMITH CONFIDENT OF EPA COMMITMENT

Julieanna Jackson by Julieanna Jackson
April 21, 2021
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U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today identified the uncompleted Yazoo Backwater Area pumps as “one of the most egregious environmental injustices” as she sought continued Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cooperation on the project under the Biden administration.

Hyde-Smith broached the issue at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing titled, “The American Jobs Plan: Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Investing in Our Nation’s Future.”  The committee conducted the hearing to gain perspectives on President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal.

“While I have a number of concerns regarding the American Jobs Plan, I am pleased that the package proposes measures to advance racial equity and environmental justice.  Today, I would like to discuss one of the most egregious environmental injustices that I’ve observed in my lifetime.  I hope the EPA, under your leadership, will be part of the solution.  I am referring to the Yazoo Backwater Project, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control project authorized by Congress in 1941,” Hyde-Smith said to EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

In March, the EPA began a review of decisions made in January under the Trump administration.  This review includes the EPA’s blessing of a new Proposed Plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move toward constructing a pumping station for the Yazoo Backwater Area, and its determination that the new Proposed Plan is not subject to EPA’s 2008 veto of a similar proposal.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed a Record of Decision on the new Proposed Plan on January 15.

Hyde-Smith stressed that the lack of a pumping station for the Yazoo Backwater Area has resulted in millions in taxpayer dollars spent to fund a “giant bathtub” that harms the lives of Mississippians living in six Delta counties that are among the most rural and underserved in the nation.

“Where are we today?  The area has experienced catastrophic flooding in nine out of the last 10 years.  The flooding has cost lives, homes, businesses, jobs, and billions to the economy and the American taxpayer.  It has also done substantial harm to the environment and wildlife,” Hyde-Smith said.

The Yazoo Backwater Area consists of a population that is almost 65 percent minority, 33 percent live in poverty, far above the national average.  The median household income is $31,393, far below the national average.  Since 2010, the area population has declined by more than 10,000.

Hyde-Smith credited the EPA for working with the Army Corps and expressed confidence that the EPA, under Regan’s leadership, would perform an impartial review of the merits of pumping station.  She also suggested the administrator visit the area to understand in detail the dire need for the project.

“I am very committed to work with you in trying to solve this,” Hyde-Smith told Regan.  “I do feel that you are very committed to environmental justice and that you will help on an impartial review of the project.  And I’m asking you to find time to come to Mississippi to look at this.  I would greatly appreciate that.”

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