[CPEO-BIF] Retirement community on Superfund site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund site owner to start cleanup
Frazer Exton Development, which wants to build a retirement community
there, said it doesn't want to wait for an EPA plan.

By Benjamin Y. Lowe
Philadelphia Inquirer 
April 15, 2005

The owner of the Cyprus Foote Mineral Co. Superfund site in East
Whiteland Township is making plans to clean up part of the abandoned
metals processing site and quarry without oversight from the
Environmental Protection Agency.

Frazer Exton Development L.L.C., which has joined with a developer to
build an 800-home retirement community on the 79-acre site, near the
intersection of Routes 202 and 30, said it does not want to miss the
summer construction season while it waits for the EPA to issue a new plan.

The developer, Roskamp Management, said it has deposits on more than 600
housing units so far.

Arnon E. Garonzik, president of Frazer Exton Development, said he would
file applications for the work with East Whiteland Township and the
Chester County Conservation District by the close of business today.

"I am confident that any of the issues that are still outstanding will
be resolved over the next 60 days," he said. "We are making progress. We
all want the same thing."

An East Whiteland environmental review board has been wary of the
township granting Frazer Exton a demolition permit because the EPA by
law cannot monitor it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/511148/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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