[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes (NJ) DuPont site and Superfund

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds tell Pompton Lakes residents 'Superfund' listing not needed in  
DuPont cleanup


BY MICHELLE LEE
THE RECORD (NJ)
April 12, 2011
POMPTON LAKES -  Turning DuPont’s polluted former munitions plant and  
surrounding contaminated properties into a Superfund site would not  
change the cleanup process, according to governmental officials.

Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2  
office presented that assessment during two public question-and- 
answer sessions Tuesday afternoon and evening inside the Father  
Michael Carnevale Faith Formation Center.

Walter Mugdan, EPA Region 2 director of emergency and remedial  
response division, went over the history of the Superfund program and  
the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, two governmental programs  
used to clean sites.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ 
041211_Feds_tell_Pompton_Lakes_residents_Superfund_listing_not_needed_in 
_DuPont_cleanup.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
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