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Maggie Pallone

Director at Office of Legislative Affairs, External Relations / DEQ

Also known as Pallone, Maggie

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Oct 2014–Jan 2016

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Time Sensitive: FAQs Needed

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Good afternoon, In preparation for announcing additional appropriation measures related to the Flint water emergency in the upcoming FY 17 budget presentation, we'll be preparing a briefing document for legislators. As part of this effort, we want to include a Frequently Asked Questions document. This is where we really need your help. Your budget staff should have a breakdown of each potential spending item related to your agency (both pending FY 16 supplemental items and FY 17 items). Please work with your budget folks and your communications team to develop any FAQs that you anticipate the public or legislators might ask, related to each item assigned to your agency. Outreach to the Legislature has already begun, so having these responses back from you quickly is very important. Please send our PIO, Kurt Weiss, and me your FAQ lists no later than 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday, February 2. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or feel free ta have your communications staff touch base with Kurt. | apologize for the short time window, but we really appreciate your help. xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b38_6783_6976_057 Robert, Carla M. (T Treasury)

Flint Budget

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Funding Request As a follow-up to our conversation this morning, attached are two documents related to funding the DEQ has received and requested for Flint. The first report indicates that $6 million of the original $7.3 million appropriated through a supplemental has been spent. The second email includes the request for an additional $6.9 million. The State Budget Office is aware that we need to have additional policy conversations regarding the second request. Please let me know if you have any questions at this time. xxxEND_PAGE:deq15_b831_2903_2903_1

FW: DWRF Timeline

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Date: Saturday, December 12, 2015 3:47:00 PM The following is a good description of what’s needed by Flint and their consultants in order to apply for DWRF funding next year. Madhu — we are working on a brief description of what are a project plan, needs survey, reliability study, asset management plan, capital improvement plan, general plan, etc.

FW: Status Update Regarding Petition for Emergency Action under the Safe Drinking

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FYI as needed. Karen, | will place a copy also in the 2-2 EPA File. Mary Beth (on Director's email) Mary Beth Thelen Management Assistant to Director Dan Wyant Department of Environmental Quality Constitution Hall, 6th Floor South Phone: 517-284-6712 or 284-6700 (new numbers) Fax: 517-241-7401

Copy of letter from Joan Rose - For DEQ Monday Morning Group - FYI.

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Dear Monday Morning 8:00 Leadership Team: At Monday’s meeting the Director asked that | send you a copy of what Joan Rose sent to Kildee. Joan sent this to the Director on November 30, 2015. FYI for you. Thank you. Mary Beth Mary Beth Thelen Management Assistant to Director Dan Wyant Department of Environmental Quality Constitution Hall, 6th Floor South Phone: 517-284-6712 or 284-6700 (new numbers) Fax: 517-241-7401

RE: Flint mtg

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In order to provide DWRF to Flint, the city has to apply for funding. The city would need to submit a project plan that documents the problems and how the city intends to address the problems. The project plan has to be submitted by May 1 in order to be considered for funding in the following fiscal year. We can discuss the details tomorrow but the city will need to take action in order to receive DWRF funding.

Flint mtg

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Maggie Do you have any background information regarding the meeting tomorrow morning? I want to make sure I'm prepared. Sonya T. Butler, Chief Revolving Loan Section Office of Drinking Water & Municipal Assistance Michigan Department of Environmental Quality xxxEND_PAGE:deq21_b363_1040_1041_1 525 W. Allegan Lansing, MI 48933 @ 517-284-5433 xxxEND_PAGE:deq21_b363_1040_1041_2

RE: October Flint Lab Invoice

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The following 3 drinking water lab account codes have been set up to be paid by DEQ from the $1M GF/GP. Samples processed under the regular City of Flint account number are sent to the city for payment. Are there any (water) sampling activities that the City performs that would not be covered under this supplemental funding? Flint Drinking Water Lab Accounts Flint—Schools =M99953604 Flint---Residential M99953605 Flint—Other M99953606 Anastasia M. Lundy Administration, RRO-DEQ ‘Phone: 517-284-5129 | Fax; 517-373-2637 Ema Landy 1@michigan gov

RE: October Flint Lab Invoice

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Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 4:48:03 PM The following 3 drinking water lab account codes have been set up to be paid by DEQ from the $1M GF/GP. Samples processed under the regular City of Flint account number are sent to the city for payment. Are there any (water) sampling activities that the City performs that would not be covered under this supplemental funding? Flint Drinking Water Lab Accounts Flint—Schools M99953604 Flint---Residential M99953605 Flint—Other M99953606 Anastasia M. Lundy Administration, RRD-DEQ Phone: 517-284-5129 / Fax; 517-373-2637 Email: [email protected]

FW: October Flint Lab Invoice

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Importance: High Not sure who the correct person to ask is about this. The Flint Action Plan was announced on October 2, 2075. lt was at this point that the DEQ announced that it would test Flint homeowner’s samples for free for lead and copper. Based on that | would say that any sarnples submitted by the city of Flint on or after October 2™ should be waid for by the DEQ using the supplemental. Does this sound right to everyone? xxxEND_PAGE:deq15_b692_2407_2411_4 George L. Krisztian Flirt Action Plan Coordinator Laboratory Director Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Desk ph (517) 284-6719 Cell ph | PPI

Water Use in Michigan

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Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 11:51:34 AM There are approximately 7.4 million Michigan residents that are served by a community public water supply, leaving approximately 2.5 million residents relying upon a private, individual home well. Of the 7.4 million people served by a community public water system, 5.6 million residents, or around 75% of those residents connected to a public water system are receiving drinking water that comes from a surface water source such as the Great Lakes or an inland river. The remaining 1.8 million residents, or 25% of the total connected to a public water system, are receiving their drinking water from groundwater. Therefore, the total number of Michigan residents relying upon groundwater for drinking is 4.3 million, or approximately 43% of the state’s total population, with 2.5 million having individual wells plus 1.8 million receiving groundwater from their water from public water system. There are a few systems that have a mix of surface water and ground water, like Ann Arbor, Adrian, Alma, etc., but they are classified as surface water systems since they blend the two at the treatment plant and surface water contribution predominates. | hope that clears up any confusion. Richard Benzie, P.E., Chief Field Operations Section Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance, MDEQ 517-284-6512 xxxEND_PAGE:deq03_b622_4712_4712_1

Fwd: Rep. Kildee Update Letter and Health Fund Request

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Maggie Pallone
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ATTOO003.htm; image004.png; ATTQ00G4.htm; 111315 Update and Health Fund Request (Snyder).pdf, ATTQOOOS htm; 10-6-2015 Response - Kildee.pdf;, ATTOOO06. htm FYI Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: Date: November 13, 2015 at 11:45:03 AM EST

Re: Revised/updated DEQ Outline of Flint Drinking Water Issues for Flint Water Task

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Force - Attorney Client Privilege Work Product Liane- The groundwater program has been stating that 40% of Michigan's residence get their drinking water from groundwater sources. This says 70% comes from surface water... Those numbers don't add up. Can we verify that number? Thanks. Maggie Sent from my iPad Undated draft —- dated November 14, 2015. Please review this draft instead. Thanks.

FW: Lead Sampling Issues

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Thought folks might find these documents informative: Attached to this message are a couple of documents that were prepared over a decade ago that discuss excessive stagnation and sample invalidation under the LCR. They were prepared in response to questions from the Washington Post and other news media about invalidation of some samples collected in the Lansing Board of Water Light service area. The first document is an internal memo that identifies language in the federal preamble to and in EPA guidance for the LCR that discuss the need to collect samples from homes that have experienced “typical residential water use during the day before the compliance sample is collected.” The second document is a report prepared to explain why we “invalidated” samples for excessive stagnation in Lansing. It was in the aftermath of this event when EPA eliminated the ability of state programs to invalidate sample results based on excessive stagnation that ed the Michigan Public Water Supply Program to develop a recommendation that communities advise residents participating in their compliance monitoring to flush the designated sampling tap 6 to 8 hours before sample collection (the night before in most cases) to ensure that this tap was not experiencing excessive periods of stagnation. We did not want subsequent regulatory requirements to be imposed based on water quality information that did not accurately reflect the regulatory intent. This briefing report also xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b214_3461_3462_1 discusses the fact that the regulatory monitoring scheme was not intended to represent human intake, but was based upon sampling a statistically significant number of residences containing leaded plumbing materials as a measure of successful water treatment efficacy. xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b214_3461_3462_2

RE: FW: EPA Region 5 to Audit State of Michigan's Drinking Water Program

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DEO welcomes this announcement from EPA, and we've already signaled fo them that they can count on our full cooperation and transparency. We've appreciated the federal government's support on the stuation in Flint -- including its announcernent last week that the Lead and Copper rule speaks arnbiguousiy on the corrosion contral issue. Nobody wanis to see a situation like Flint, and we look forward in working with our federal partners going forward because we share the goal of making sure the Flint situation is nol repeated -- in Michigan, or anywhere else. b Brad Wurfel Communications Trector Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 12:36 PM

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