RE: State roles in public participation

[Dan Dozier <ddozier@tlisystems.com>]

Thank you Glenn Landers for your "suggestion then would be the U.S. EPA start strictly enforcing public participation requirements delegated to other authorities and reject permits, rules, and plans submitted without adequate participation. I don't think the public can really take a participation policy seriously if, once it is delegated to the state, it gets ignored."

I fully agree.  And from a state's viewpoint, it is hard to understand why they don't see, at least in the long run, why having sham public involvement programs isn't in the state's interest.  Why promise public information and then make it difficult to get?  Why create a public involvement program/committee and then shut out participation from interested people?