[CPEO-BIF] Missouri "State auditor to look at hazardous waste, brownfield programs"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State auditor to look at hazardous waste, brownfield programs

By JEREMY KOHLER
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
April 5, 2013

Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich says his office will audit the state  
agency assigned to protect the environment and public health from  
hazardous waste, after Post-Dispatch stories that exposed problems  
with oversight at the cleanup of the former Carondelet Coke site in  
St. Louis that has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

Through a spokesman, Schweich said his audit team would examine what  
role the Hazardous Waste Program played in the problems identified in  
the newspaper’s stories last year. Two auditors will spend at least  
four months reviewing records, according to memos provided by the  
program. The program pledged to assist them.

The Post-Dispatch investigation showed that another state agency, the  
Department of Economic Development, had committed $12.3 million to  
the cleanup with little public notice. Meanwhile, former owners  
Laclede Gas Co. and SGL Group were each paying just $471,250 and  
Carondelet Coke owner J. Donald Crane was paying nothing for the  
cleanup of what state officials said were 42 acres of the most  
polluted land in the state.

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/state-auditor-to- 
look-at-hazardous-waste-brownfield-programs/article_c954046d- 
be34-5a59-8686-5c5c620b45b5.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
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