CITIZEN POWER ALLIANCE

Local and federal officials remained tight-lipped Friday about closed-door negotiations into where to house the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's final public meeting on its multi-million-dollar hydraulic fracturing study.

In a written statement, Broome County Deputy Executive Darcy Fauci said the county submitted everything the agency needed to The Cadmus Group, an EPA contractor, and is "hopeful for this resolution to this issue early next week."

The county and EPA contractors have been in talks about hosting the meeting at The Forum, a county-owned theater in downtown Binghamton.

While Broome officials have been negotiating a deal for rental and security costs inside the theater, the contractors have been in separate talks with the City of Binghamton for a security plan outside of the venue

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