[CPEO-BIF] Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port Gamble Tribe begins environmental assessments in Kingston


Kathleen Byrne-Barrantes
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal (WA)
April 1, 2010

The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe (PGST), through a Cooperative Agreement 
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will begin 
environmental assessment activities on the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribal 
Lands and areas in the Kingston/Port Gamble Bay vicinity.

...

Port Gamble Bay, the site of an historic sawmill and forest products 
manufacturing operation, is a small bay in northern Hood Canal 
contaminated with a variety of hazardous substances resulting from the 
historic Pope & Talbot mill operations in Port Gamble that lasted 
approximately 150 years. The site has been identified as a priority 
cleanup site for Puget Sound by the Governor's Puget Sound Initiative. 
Contamination is related to sawmill operations, wood products 
manufacturing, and log chipping, rafting, and storage.

...

For the entire article, see
http://kpbj.com/headlines/environment/2010-04-01/port_gamble_tribe_begins_environmental_assessments_in_kingston

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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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