U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Date of this Version
9-1980
Citation
United States Environmental Protection Agency. Office of External Affairs Region VII. September 19080
Abstract
Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri, which make up EPA Region VII, are among the leading corn and wheat producing States in the Nation_ These States also produce a significant share of the soybean, grain sorghum, fat cattle, and finished hogs that are supplied to American and foreign markets.
Although the States in Region VII can best be characterized as rural, 65 percent of their nearly 12 million people live in urban areas. In Nebraska, metropolitan areas such as Omaha 4 have environmental problems resulting from major industrial operations, municipal services, transportation, and energy production. Metropolitan areas, however, do not have a monopoly on environmental problems. Hundreds of communities with populations of less than 5000 have some of the same problems, but they suffer the disadvantage of having inadequate tax bases to deal with them
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Comments
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