[CPEO-BIF] COLLECTING INFORMATION ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FEDERAL SHUTDOWN

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Please excuse redundant postings. – LS


This week I was supposed to fly to the East Coast for meetings that  
would have included an EPA Public Information session in Pompton  
Lakes, New Jersey and a Restoration Advisory Board meeting at Ft.  
Monmouth, also in New Jersey. Both were cancelled, so I had to skip  
the trip.

Here in Mountain View, California we've been working with EPA to set  
up a public meeting later this month to update the community on the  
groundwater and indoor air sampling activities along Evandale Avenue.  
Presumably that meeting has been delayed as well.

One by one, I'm beginning to hear that national meetings I've been  
planning to attend are being postponed or cancelled because federal  
employee participants are "locked out" by the failure of Congress to  
appropriate funds.

The Federal shutdown is having a growing impact on environmental  
cleanup and other programs, but the people whose job it is to report  
on these things are themselves on forced furlough.

Therefore, I'm collecting information about ACTIVITIES NOT HAPPENING  
because of the lack of appropriations. These may include meetings,  
grant offerings or payments, studies, or actual physical remediation.

I'm also interested in examples of how the shutdown in imposing NEW  
COSTS. For example, canceling my trip has stuck me with a $200  
airline change fee.

Please e-mail me with your experiences. It's important that people  
know that the shutdown has significant environmental consequences.

Lenny

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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