[CPEO-BIF] Marina Center, California's North Coast

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Multiple agencies to weigh Balloon Track cleanup plan

Thadeus Greenson
(North Coast) Times-Standard (CA)
September 9, 2009

Officials from the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board said 
Tuesday that the board's approval of a supplemental interim remedial 
action plan for the Marina Center Project does not automatically set the 
plan in motion.

The public has until Sept. 10 to comment on the cleanup plan, which the 
board approved in June and outlines the cleanup of industrial 
contamination on the Balloon Track property, the proposed home of the 
43-acre Marina Center development. Humboldt Baykeeper, a nonprofit 
environmental watchdog organization, requested the board hold a period 
for public comment on the plan, and some have questioned whether the 
board was trying to keep the community in the dark by not noticing the 
public about the plan.

Dave Evans, the board's supervising water resource control engineer, 
said Tuesday that, as a practice, the board does not hold public comment 
periods for supplemental interim remedial action plans, as they are 
preliminary.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13297527

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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
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