A separate rule that would have lowered the permitted amount of the chemical selenium in most rivers and stream was withdrawn after the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality opposed the stricter requirements.
The rules, which are less strict than those that had been put out by ODAFF for public comment, must now get the approval of the Legislature and governor.
Investigators suspected Dennis Mason was killed by toxic vapors from the oil.
But they weren’t able to prove it, because state medical examiners didn’t test Mason’s blood for petroleum chemicals
The Walton Family Foundation is offering to pay GRDA for most of the estimated $15.6 to $18 million cost of the proposed whitewater park on the Illinois River in Adair County.
While one of the bills currently has requirements that are more stringent than those proposed in December by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, the other currently has requirements that are much less stringent than those proposed by the department.
State officials first investigated changing the name of Lake Hudson after The Frontier reported on its namesake’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Meanwhile OWRB staff members said they plan to bring back a set of proposed limitations on more than three dozen toxic chemicals already found or likely to be found in drinking water supplies and fish after abruptly pulling the standards from consideration when an industry-backed group raised technical issues about the proposal.
The proposed rules, thought by many to have been effectively killed last month, are currently in a public comment phase.
