Brian Nearing is reporting in the Times Union federal officials have one week left to grade the success of General Electric's effort to remove toxic PCBs from the Hudson River. In the meantime, elected officials and environmental activists are telling the Environmental Protection Agency the river cleanup is far from finished. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. representatives Paul Tonko and Nita Lowey, Sean Maloney and Eliot Engle of the Hudson Valley area, wrote to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this week urging the agency to consider complaints made last year by the state Department of Environmental Conservation that too many PCBs remain. The letter advised the EPA to weigh DEC data that shows the remedy as prescribed is not "protective of human health and the environment." The letter further warned that "New Yorkers must not be left holding the bag for contamination that will render the Hudson River a Superfund site for generations to come." Under federal Superfund pollution rules, the EPA must review the effectiveness of its cleanup projects every five years. The federal agency had expected to issue its five-year review of the Hudson River clean-up in April, well in advance of a June 1 deadline. On Wed., May 24, an EPA spokesperson said no date for release of the report has been set. The current draft report runs to 900 pages and is still being revised. Read the full story in the Times Union.