[CPEO-IRF] BRAC bases on the "Superfund" National Priorities List

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dozens of closed military bases on EPA list of worst toxic sites

By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press (San Francisco Chronicle)
May 12, 2005

Thirty-four military bases shut down since 1988 are on the Environmental 
Protection Agency's Superfund list of worst toxic waste sites - most of 
them for at least 15 years - and not one is completely cleaned up.

As the latest base-closing commission begins its work, an examination by 
The Associated Press shows EPA is concerned with incomplete pollution 
cleanups at more than 100 Defense Department facilities. Other 
military-related cleanups are being led solely by states.

EPA lists 10 sites with problems such as groundwater contamination not 
yet fully under control. Five are in California; the others are in 
Arizona, Florida, Tennessee and Oregon.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/11/national/w232413D19.DTL

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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
http://www.cpeo.org


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