[CPEO-BIF] BoRit Asbestos site, Ambler, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

The community campaign to place the BoRit Asbestos site, in Ambler, 
Pennsylvania on the "Superfund" National Priorities List is heating up, 
but the mainstream press hasn't yet taken notice.

Activists have collected 5200 signatures on their petition, and they 
report that Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection 
Secretary Kathleen McGinty has sent a letter to EPA requesting the NPL 
listing.

For background, see my February 2007 report at
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/BoRitAsbestos.pdf.

Lenny

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US Rep Asks EPA to raise Priority of Cleaning BoRit Site

The Asbestos and Mesothelioma Center
May 27th, 2008

Ambler, Pennsylvania – After last week's funding request to the 
Environmental Protection Agency for money to clean up the BoRit site in 
Ambler, PA, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz has written a letter to the EPA 
headquarters supporting the request and the citizen's petition that asks 
for the site to be included on the National Priorities List.

EPA Region 3 asked EPA headquarters to supply $4 million in Superfund 
money to clean up the BoRit asbestos site last week. The funding request 
came from Eduardo Rovira, the eastern EPA branch's on-scene coordinator. 
Rovira said in the memo that he estimated eighteen months and more than 
$8.1 million would be needed to "prevent, limit or mitigate the threat 
posed by hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants at the site."

For the entire article, see
http://www.asbestos.com/news/us-rep-asks-epa-to-raise-priority-of-cleaning-borit-site.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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