A disaster recovery coordinator will be stationed there until no longer needed
Ohio Army National Guard and Ohio State Highway Patrol officers assist with traffic control after the train derailment in East Palestine.
As Norfolk Southern continues to deal with the legal and PR fallout from the East Palestine derailment, President Biden this week issued an executive order to assign a so-called Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator to act as a kind of intermediary between Homeland Security, the state of Ohio and East Palestine residents still affected by the disaster.
In the next month or two, the EPA, according to Biden's order, will gauge the full extent of Norfolk Southern's ongoing cleanup efforts, including the"status of air, soil, surface water, groundwater and drinking water sampling and monitoring." Such reporting will continue, the order said, until"all cleanup, assessment and monitoring work" is finished.
"It is a continuing priority of my administration to hold Norfolk Southern full accountable under the law for this disaster," Biden said in the order,"and any of its long-term effects, and to provide additional federal assistance that the affected states, the people of East Palestine and all those affected in surrounding communities may need."
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