The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which told a congressional hearing June 5 that it would release a comprehensive strategy for cleaning up polluted ground water in the San Gabriel Valley in July, said Thursday that its plan will not be ready until the end of the year.
The delay was announced by Daniel W. McGovern, EPA regional administrator, in a letter to Rep. Esteban Torres (D-La Puente), chairman of the House small business subcommittee on environment and labor, which held the June 5 hearing to find out why the EPA is not moving faster on the cleanup.
