[CPEO-BIF] Bozeman Solvent Site, Montana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City, CVS sparring with state over Bozeman Superfund site

By AMANDA RICKER
Bozeman Chronicle (MT)
September 15, 2010

Twenty-one years after perchloroethene, a dry-cleaning fluid and 
suspected carcinogen, was discovered under the Hastings Shopping Center, 
there still isn't a plan to clean it up.

The city of Bozeman and CVS Pharmacy are responsible for cleaning up the 
Superfund site, dubbed the Bozeman Solvent Site. But the two say a state 
regulatory agency overseeing the remediation is dragging its heels. And 
they're prepared to take the state to court if the process doesn't speed up.

"The city and CVS will no longer accept management behavior from the 
(Montana Department of Environmental Quality,) which does nothing more 
than provide lengthy delays and abusive, arbitrary demands, while 
imposing unreasonable costs upon the taxpayers of the city of Bozeman 
and CVS," states an Aug. 31 letter to MDEQ from attorneys representing 
the city and CVS.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/article_50252ae2-c063-11df-a78d-001cc4c03286.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>
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