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September 18, 2017

Melody C. Taylor, Regional Director

PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL OFFICE
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Mid-Atlantic Office
100 Penn Square East,
12th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tel: (215) 861-7643
Fax: (215) 656-3449

Re: NRHA Public Housing Demolition and Disposition Application Under

Section 18 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA) as amended.

Dear Ms. Taylor:

This is an official petition to disapprove Norfolk Redevelopment

and Housing Authority (NRHA) application for federal approval under
Section 18 Demolition requirements from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) or other applications they may file in
the future.

It appears, based on information and belief Norfolk Redevelopment

and Housing Authority (NRHA), the City of Norfolk, (Norfolk), have
refused to remedy migration of known environmental contamination
loaded with highly organic hazardous substances such as coal tar, coal
ash, iron, oily benzene and other poisonous coal by-products, as poly
nuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) cyanide and phenolics, inorganic
nitrogen compounds, metals and gases such as methane in potentially
explosive quantities polluting the air and soils presently migrating off-
site as part of a contaminated leading edge groundwater plume
from Virginia Beach Boulevard and Monticello Avenue on the east,
South and west, respectfully, and by Princess Anne Road and Salter
Street on the north and east, respectively (the Site), the Old Virginia
Electric and Power Norfolk Manufactured Coal Gasification Plant site,
adjacent to the residents of Youngs Terrace, housing project, known
as Cedar grove and (HRT LOT #39), in the projects contaminated
soil in unacceptable levels.
 Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA), and the
City of Norfolk have failed and refused to properly cap the toxic site and
provide an adequate waste removal analysis plan, contingency plan, and
closure plan, with present dangers occurring to the residents of Youngs
Terrace, Tidewater Gardens, and Calvert Square.

It appears the aforementioned entities improper conduct complained

of previously submitted false and misleading submissions to DEQ/EPA
that migration of known environmental contamination off-site had not
occurred which is negatively impacting the minority residents of Youngs
Terrance housing project, subjected to long-term exposure from the most
dangerous carcinogenic compounds known to man. See: Ten-O-Corp.,
Calvin Zeed v. Virginia Electric & Power (demurrer of City of
Norfolk, AT LAW No. L96-39330) and (AT LAW No. L96-2856
Frank Spicer, Sr., v. City of Norfolk, a municipal corporation).

It appears the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has consistently failed or
refused to any take enforcement actions against as required by law.
See: (VPROOO97, IR2008-T-0989, IR 2010-T-3302).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has consistently

failed or refused to enforce the Superfund Site (NPL) Designation
With respect to the toxic graveyard to protect human health and the
environment. For the above-stated reasons NRHA, Public Housing
Demolition and Disposition Application should be disapproved.

Thank you in advance,

Mr. Roy L. Perry-Bey

Director of Civil Rights
Coalition For Equal Justice
PO BOX 1772
Hampton, Virginia 23669
ufj2020@gmail.com
(804) 252-9109
cc:
Honorable Terry McAuliffe,
Governor of Virginia
1111 East Broad Street,
Richmond, VA 23219

Honorable Mark R. Herring

Office of the Attorney General
900 East Main Street
Richmond, VA 23219