Feds spend $425,000 cleaning up old college
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The federal government has spent $425,776 so far to clean up the thousands of chemicals abandoned in a vacant science building on the Knoxville College campus.
Environmental Protection Agency official Anita Davis told the Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1zILL7a ) the federal agency will seek to recover the cost of the three-week June cleanup from the struggling historically black college
The first step in recouping that money will be to send a demand letter to college officials. Davis says that is something the agency plans to do in 2015.
The school’s most recent federal tax documents available show the college in 2011 operated at a $525,000 deficit and was $4.1 million in debt.
A remediation team with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation discovered the chemicals in early June.
