[CPEO-IRF] "Don't Let Pentagon Dump On Us" - Groton, CT

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Don't Let Pentagon Dump On Us

By PHILIP L. SUSSLER
New London Day (CT)
July 3, 2005

Connecticut can't let the Pentagon duck the cleanup costs it is
responsible for at the sub base.

So far, in justifying closure of the base, the Pentagon has decided to
ignore almost all the associated environmental cleanup costs. The
Defense Department's BRAC recommendation assumes that the environmental
cleanup obligation and cost is about the same whether the base remains
open or is closed abruptly and, therefore, the costs are treated as a
wash. 

But what is the standard for cleanup? The standard for cleanup for
continued use as a military base is much lower and less costly than it
is for reuse of the base property for commercial or residential
purposes. 

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=CA17CC27-3A4B-4D51-8EAA-BCF9BCC7FB6E

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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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