From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 18 Jun 2005 00:14:17 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-irf |
Subject: | [CPEO-IRF] Groton Federal Facilities Agreement |
[Most federal facilities on the National Priorities List have federal facilities agreements. They govern the cleanup decision-making process and usually provide a schedule for deliverable documents, but they do not define the remedies or the level of response. I don't know what is unique about the Groton federal facilities agreement. - LS] AG says 1994 agreement requires feds to pay for base cleanup By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press/Long Island Newsday June 14, 2005 HARTFORD, Conn. -- Nine years ago, Connecticut hammered out an agreement with the federal government requiring the Department of Defense to clean up all the contamination on the U.S. Navy Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut's attorney general said Tuesday. That "federal facilities agreement," which is unique to the sub base, means DOD "can't leave it, or sell it or contain it; they have to clean it," Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told The Associated Press. Blumenthal is questioning whether the Pentagon accounted for the agreement last month when it recommended closing the base. ... For the entire article, see http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct-submarinebase-clea0614jun14,0,2415748.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut You may need to cut and paste the URL. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum | |
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