Paul Egan

Far the declaration, we needed to have a formal request from the county. When we received that request, we were able to issue the declaration in a day. But we have been working with Flint leaders for months. Dave Murray Press Secretary | Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder PPI i i mobile xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails19_b109_299_301_1

P As soon as | posted story on Twitter a lot of people chimed in with “110 days too late,” etc. Ananich said “It is beyond frustrating that the city I love, and the people who live in it, had to declare it destroved before the state would act with any urgency,” I don’t think vou answered my question: is the governor saying the state had to wait for formal request fram county before it could act?

Just curious, who is making these allegations? Gov. Snyder has bean allocating state resnurces to addrass health and weliness challenges in Filnt since October through his action plan. We've been working closely with Mayor Weaver and other local leaders on a vartety of approaches to 1 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1399_3567_3568_1 obtaining additional resources. Those are conversations that will continue, along with collaborative efforts with city and county leaders. Dave Murray Press Secretary 6 Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder

BY 2oy> On the allegations of delay, is the governor saying the state had to walt for formal request from courty before it could act?

Hi Paul, The state of Michigan will use its resources to the fullest possible extent during this emergency. If state and local resources are unable to cope with the emergency, the Governor may request federal assistance. We will continue to look for all avenues for potential assistance for Flint as part of our collaborative efforts to protect the health and welfare of children and all residents Dave Murray xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1398_3565_3566_1 Press Secretary | Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder Twitter:@michigandmurray xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1398_3565_3566_2

Dave can you give me any comment on US Attorney’s Office saying they are investigating Flint water contamination, along with the EPA? Thanks, Paul xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b0471_1665_1665_1

Paul The health and welfare of Flint residents is a top priority, and we’re committed to working closely with Mayor Weaver and the Genesee County Commission on a coordinated response to health and infrastructure issues. After the County Commission’s vote today, the Michigan State Police’s Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division is working with the Genesee County Emergency Management Coordinator to gather information about the resources needed for a Governor’s declaration. The state police have been closely engaged in the situation since the beginning, meeting with both county and city leaders to guide them through state and federal laws regarding the emergency management process. Due to the uniqueness of this situation, we have to look at all possible options to help Flint residents. But prior to a formal declaration, we are recognizing this as an emergency and are working with city and county leaders to coordinate efforts, streamline communication and tap all available resources at the state’s control. I’ve attached a fact sheet from MSP that outlines the emergency process. Dave Murray Twitter:@michigandmurray

Hi Dave: Apparently the chairman of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners declared a state of emergency today in Flint related to the contaminated drinking water issue, meaning a formal request is headed to Gov. Snyder. | am interested in following up on this issue. Could you please let me know if/when the governor’s office receives the request, and, if possible, give me a heads up on any action he takes in connection with it? 1 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b0461_1648_1649_1 Thanks, Paul xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b0461_1648_1649_2

No formal request has been made to the state at this point. We are committed to working with Mayor Weaver and Genesee County leaders. Members of the Michigan State Police Emergency Management Division recently met with the mayor and Genesee County Commission leaders to discuss potential avenues for federal aid, and the governor spoke to the mayor last week. Dave Murray . Press Secretary | Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder [email protected] 517-335-6397, office! ‘mobile Twitter:@michigandmurray

farLov> Thanks Cave {can tweak that eref or add line from auchtor general’s report, but there was a lot more to ft than dropping two samphes. DEC official sent Flint ar: ernails saying sa far Flint is over the AL and | hope you can send me samicles below AL. Aico DEC didn't scrutinize or drop other samples that didn’t meet the criteria. So 1 will take another look at that graf but overall don’t think what tt says is iriaccurate. Paul

Hi Paul, | saw this line in your story: xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1353_3486_3487_1 that records obtained by the Michigan ACLU and Virginia Tech researcher Mare Ewards show elevated lead levels i in Flint's drinking water would have spurred action months sooner if the resulis of city testing that wrapped up in June had not been revised by the DEQ to wrongly indicate the water was safe to drink. | was wondering if that aspect was addressed in the OAG letter yesterday. | don’t think anyone at the Freep wrote about that letter. That issue is discussed in depth on page 6, and the OAG said it was “appropriate” for the DEQ to drop the two water sampling sites. I’ve attached the letter to this email so you have the opportunity to give it a quick read. Let me know if we are talking about two different things. Thanks! Dave Dave Murray Press Secretary | Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder Murray @michigan gov 517-335-6397, office Twitter:@michigandmurray xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1353_3486_3487_2

Thanks for sending Dave. Sent from my iPhone

Paul, Thanks for the inquiry. Most of these questions regard issues presently before the Governor's independent after action review panel. We dont want to get in front of that review. With the review group taking a close look al the past, the DEQ is now focused on present and future challenges related to Implementing the Governor's 10-point plan. To your final question, the department went tnrough OTME to confirm that the reply to Ms. Walters was sent ta her email address and received by that address. | can forward it if you need to see IL b Brad Wurfel Communications Director, Michigan Department of Environmental Cuaiity PPI icell}

Hi Brad: | am working on an update/wrap-up on the Flint water issue. | have a few questions and | am hoping you can provide answers by the end of the day Tuesday. | am also copying two DEQ officials referenced in the questions, in case they want to answer directly. The questions are based on e-mails obtained through FOIA by Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards, and by the Michigan ACLU. 1/ Have any DEQ officials been re-assigned or disciplined in relation to the Flint drinking water issue, other than Liane Shekter Smith? 2/ Why did Stephen Busch say in a Feb. 27 e-mail to the EPA that Flint had “an optimized corrosion control program” when in fact Flint had no corrosion control program? 3/ On June 25, Adam Rosenthal of the DEQ's Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance sent an e-mail about the water samples to Michael Glasgow, a utilities administrator with the City of Flint. "Just wanted to remind you/confirm that Flint is on track for a few items," Rosenthal wrote in the e-mail. 1 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1266_3200_3201_1 "We hope you have 61 more lead/copper samples collected and sent to the lab by 6/30/15, and that they are will be (sic) below the AL (action level) for lead," the e-mail said. "As of now with 39 results, Flint's 90th percentile is over the AL for lead." Was Rosenthal encouraging Flint to collect samples that would be below the action level for lead? Many people are reading his e-mail that way. Is there any reason why | should not? 4/ Why was the DEQ strict in 2015 about disqualifying the sample with a high reading from the home of LeeAnne Walters, for the stated reason that she used a water filter, but not strict in disqualifying other samples for other reasons that could have been used, such as that they were not among the 100 homes that were sampled in 2014, or that they did not come from homes at high risk for lead (for example the homes on Flushing Road that had received a new water main in 2007?) Why is it that of the homes sampled in 2014, only homes that had tested below the AL for lead were sampled again in 2015 and none of the homes that had sampled above the AL for lead in 2014 were sampled again in 2015? Were the samples being cherry picked, as some have suggested? 5/ LeeAnne Walters says she never received a promised letter or email that was to follow up with her

It’s only three basic questions, Brad. | just gave you some extra background and context. 5 p.m.?

That’s not much lead time, Paul. We'll do what we can with this. What’s your deadline for response? Brad Wurfel Communications Director, Michigan Department of Environmental Gualty [email protected] 517-230-8006 (ceil)

Hi Brad/Angela: | am writing a story for Friday’s paper about former Flint Mayor James Sharp, Jr. calling for federal investigations and more comprehensive outreach efforts to contact and test those who may have drank Flint water containing unsafe levels of lead. Sharp, who was Flint mayor from 1983 to 1987, also has another somewhat unique perspective on the issue of contaminated drinking water. He was a U.S. Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune in the 1950s, where it was later determined drinking water was contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals such as the dry cleaning fluid perchloroethylene. Sharp told the Free Press in an interview Wednesday that his daughter born on the base, who died at the age of two months, may have been a victim of the toxins. Sharp said after learning of the contamination in the 1980s, officials created a database and contacted him and thousands of others who may have drank the water. In 2012, President Obama signed federal legislation providing medical care to those who drank the Camp Lejeune water. Similar actions, along with investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and FBI, need to be taken i in response to the situation in Flint, Sharp said. xxxEND_PAGE:deq27_b087_0464_0464_1

Hi Brad: | am working on an update/wrap-up on the Flint water issue. | have a few questions and | am hoping you can provide answers by the end of the day Tuesday. | am also copying two DEQ officials referenced in the questions, in case they want to answer directly. The questions are based on e-mails obtained through FOIA by Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards, and by the Michigan ACLU. 1/ Have any DEQ officials been re-assigned or disciplined in relation to the Flint drinking water issue, other than Liane Shekter Smith? 2/ Why did Stephen Busch say in a Feb. 27 e-mail to the EPA that Flint had “an optimized corrosion control program” when in fact Flint had no corrosion control program? 3/ On June 25, Adam Rosenthal of the DEQ's Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance sent an e-mail about the water samples to Michael Glasgow, a utilities administrator with the City of Flint. "Just wanted to remind you/confirm that Flint is on track for a few items," Rosenthal wrote in the e-mail. 1 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1271_3270_3271_1 "We hope you have 61 more lead/copper samples collected and sent to the lab by 6/30/15, and that they are will be (sic) below the AL (action level) for lead," the e-mail said. "As of now with 39 results, Flint's 90th percentile is over the AL for lead." Was Rosenthal encouraging Flint to collect samples that would be below the action level for lead? Many people are reading his e-mail that way. Is there any reason why | should not? 4/ Why was the DEQ strict in 2015 about disqualifying the sample with a high reading from the home of LeeAnne Walters, for the stated reason that she used a water filter, but not strict in disqualifying other samples for other reasons that could have been used, such as that they were not among the 100 homes that were sampled in 2014, or that they did not come from homes at high risk for lead (for example the homes on Flushing Road that had received a new water main in 2007?) Why is it that of the homes sampled in 2014, only homes that had tested below the AL for lead were sampled again in 2015 and none of the homes that had sampled above the AL for lead in 2014 were sampled again in 2015? Were the samples being cherry picked, as some have suggested? 5/ LeeAnne Walters says she never received a promised letter or email that was to follow up with her from the Aug. 4 meeting in Lansing with DEQ officials and aides to the Governor. Was she ever sent the letter, which was to explain to her, among other items, why the sample from her home was disqualified? Thanks, Paul Egan Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau 517-372-8660 xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1271_3270_3271_2

Got pulled onto a conference call on my way back from Detroit, Paul. Hopefully freed up no later than 2 PM. | will call ASAP Sent from my iPhone

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Covered this issue previously with Nancy, Paul, as has Terry. Not sure what's new or different here at all, but will be happy to try and help. The chief mentioned this am you reached out and asked me to cover. Am with the governor at events this first part of today, but should be able to call about Noon or just after. Work for you? Sara Wurfel Press Secretary | Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder Sent from my iPhone

Good morning, Sara: | sent the e-mail below to Dennis on Thursday but | haven't received a respanse. | am following up with you because Nancy Kaffer tells me she had raised the issue of the March 25, 2013 phone call with you earlier, though the last | heard fram Nancy about it, she had not received a resporise. We are ruriring @ story on the weekend so | would very much appreciate some answers today. Did Dennis Muchmiore, through his consultation with farmer Treasurer Dillon on the day of the Hint City Council meeting, sign off on the ewitch to KYA, and did Muchmiore inform and get sign-off from Gov, Snyder in doing so? Thanks, Paul cc Dave Murray

xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b33_5236_5444_148 Hi Andy: Why did the state and city opt to go with KWA for Flint water supply when the study you commissioned from Tucker, Young, Jackson, Tull found that going with KWA would be more costly than staying with DWSD? (Here is excerpt from p. 17): “Based on the analysis, it is prudent to assume the KWA water supply option costs would be somewhere between the KWA-1 and KWA-2 options. Therefore, the analysis indicates that the two DWSD options of supplying 8 MGD on a maximum day and up to 8 MGD on average are the least cost options for Flint. These options allow Flint to maximize the use of existing assets; the City of Flint’s (the Flint WTP) and DWSD’s (the existing 72-inch main).” How would you describe your role in the chain of decisions that led to Flint drawing its water supply from the Flint River? The Flint City Council opted to go with the KWA on the evening of March 25, 2013. Your schedule shows you had a 5 p.m. phone conversation at 5 p.m. that day with Dennis Muchmore “regarding Flint Water Supply alternatives.” The next day, March 26, 2013, your schedule shows a 9 a.m. meeting at Treasury “regarding Flint water, a 1:30 p.m. phone call with Dan Wyant “regarding Flint/K WA,” and a w p.m. meeting in Lansing with Flint Mayor Dayne Walling? What do you recall about these conversations/meetings? Did Muchmore sign off on the switch to KWA on behalf of the governor? Thanks, Paul Egan Detroit Free Press Cell 517-282-8780 xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b33_5236_5444_149 Byrne, Randall (Ti: reasury)

Terry attached is the City of Flint Water Supply Assessment, a February 2013 study commissioned by the state treasurer and carried out by Tucker, Young, Jackson, Tull Inc. Why did the state and city opt to split with DWSD and go with KWA when this study found it would be more costly to do so?

BYE BOND Hi Dennis: Some time ago | obtained former Treasurer Andy Dillon’s appointment calendar, under FOIA. On March 25, 2013, at 5 p.m., it lists: “Call with Dennis Muchmore regarding Flint Water Supply Alternatives.” Later that evening, the city council of Flint, which was under a state-appointed emergency manager, voted to switch its water supply from the city of Detroit to a new Karegnondi Water Authority. Can you please call me to discuss your/the state’s role in that decision? Also, for another time, maybe in December, would love to do an exit interview before you leave your current post. Thanks, Paul xxxEND_PAGE:executiveofficeemails20_b1717_4181_4181_1