are folks with legitimate concerns about how this waste is being transported and how it will be disposed of. e.p.a. will continue to work with our local, state, and federal partners to use our long-standing experience and expertise in these matters to ensure the health and safety and to support the east palestine community and to hold norfolk southern accountable. in the meantime, it is important to point out that both, leaders in both communities, in wayne county and also, in texas, they don t have any reason to believe it is being mishand. at least the material. it is more, they want more information. no question about it. thank you very much. earlier today, .with former transportation secretary ray lahood and he told me congress needs to do more to prevent
our local, state and federal partners to use our long-standing experience and expertise in these matters to ensure the health and safety and support the east palestine community and to hold norfolk southern accountable. now, in the meantime michigan congresswoman debbie dingell told my colleague, fredricka whitfield, earlier today that no one in her state was given a heads up that waste from the train derailment site was being sent there. i very quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. but we did discover that the governor of ohio had posted it on its website that they were headed for here. i ve called everybody. i ve called epa, i called d.o.t., i called u.s. ecology which controls the sites, i called norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that
we re going to look at the decision-making on that. we re going to look at whether the vent and burn adhered to the federal guidance. and then we re going to look at the federal guidance itself to see if it needs to be updated or changed. members of the east palestine community, as we heard last night at our town hall with them, are reporting health issues. they re scared. it could be 12 to 18 months before your final analysis is released. how can the ntsb get answers and provide support for residents in the meantime? well, first of all, the conclusion of the final report is about 12 to 18 months. however, right now we have the ability at any time during the accident investigation to issue urgent safety recommendations. and we don t wait till the end for that. we are looking at this investigation to do just that. and today we also announced a