[CPEO-IRF] Connecticut AG wants more Groton surveys

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Blumenthal: Navy Clueless On Cleanup Cost

By ROBERT A. HAMILTON
New London Day (CT)
June 24, 2005

Groton - State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has criticized the
Navy for conducting only limited surveys of radioactive contamination at
the Naval Submarine Base, and for extrapolating what a cleanup might
cost based on the experience at naval shipyards.

Blumenthal has asked U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., to request
additional documents from the Navy regarding the issue of radioactive
contamination at the base, including any reports or records detailing
what areas have been surveyed and how they were chosen.

The Navy has said repeatedly that radioactive contamination at the base
is minimal, adding less than 1 percent of natural background radiation,
because of strict controls that have been in place for many years, and
that if the base is closed as the Pentagon has recommended, re-use of
the property would not be hindered by radiation levels.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=803487E5-0CCC-44AE-AD3D-FBA85617850E

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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>
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