[CPEO-BIF] "EPA renews effort to make Hopewell Precision pay, " Hopewell Junction (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA renews effort to make Hopewell Precision pay
Fix for Town of East Fishkill Superfund site has languished in part due to lack of funding

by John Ferro
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
March 12, 2015


HOPEWELL JUNCTION – The Environmental Protection Agency has renewed its effort to make those responsible for the contamination at the Hopewell Precision Superfund site pay for at least part of the cleanup, the Poughkeepsie Journal has learned.

The agency this week said it has begun working with the Department of Justice to seek payment from Hopewell Precision Inc. and John B. Budd, the company's former owner who still owns the property on which the plant sits.

"We are actively engaged with the (potentially responsible parties)," spokesman Elias Rodriguez said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/03/12/epa-hopewell-precision-cost-recovery/70240210/

See also
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/03/12/hopewell-north-water-district-adopted/70241314/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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