[CPEO-IRF] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (ME) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Open or closed, shipyard cleanup will continue

By NATE PARDUE
Foster's Daily Democrat (ME)
May 9, 2005

KITTERY, Maine ? State and federal agencies are systematically working
to clean up the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard after years of environmental carelessness.

If the facility is placed on a pending federal closure list scheduled to
be released sometime this week, officials said they feel confident those
cleanup efforts will continue. Historically, cleanups of former military
bases have remained the responsibility of the government.

...

But James O. Horrigan, a member of the shipyard?s Restoration Advisory
Board, said he was confident the Navy would hold up its end of the
cleanup responsibilities.

His concern is whether the Navy would continue to monitor the results of
its cleanup efforts should the site be taken over by a municipality or a
private business.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050509/NEWS23/50509108

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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