[CPEO-BIF] RADIATION: Kettleman Hills (CA) won't accept Santa Susana Field Laboratory (CA) wastes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

San Joaquin Valley landfill won't accept Field Lab waste

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
January 13, 2010

A landfill in the San Joaquin Valley will not accept waste from the 
Santa Susana Field Laboratory following an outcry over Boeing Co. and 
NASA's application to send radioactively contaminated dirt there.

Waste Management, the company that owns the Kettleman Hills landfill, 
notified California's Secretary for Environmental Protection on Tuesday 
of the company's decision.

"Waste Management's Kettleman Hills Facility has voluntarily decided not 
to accept solid or hazardous wastes from any portion of the Santa Susana 
Field Lab because of the uncertainty and community concerns about the 
levels of radioactive constituents in these materials," Senior District 
Manager Robert G. Henry wrote in a letter Tuesday to the state EPA's 
Linda Adams.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jan/13/san-joaquin-valley-landfill-wont-accept-field/

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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>
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