PEER has reported that although the EPA libraries have been ordered to reopen their libraries, they are being placed in ridiculously small spaces with few resources. According to the news report pertaining to the Chicago EPA library::
- The re-opened library will be in a vacant reception area on the 16th floor of a federal building;
- The re-opened library will occupy less than one-tenth the area of the closed library and will be only slightly larger than the typical men’s restroom in that same building;
- No provision is made to restore the unique Great Lakes ecological collection or to recover any of the other holdings from the former library.