[CPEO-IRF] Sunflower (KS) cleanup to resume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sunflower cleanup to resume this spring

By Elvyn J. Jones
DeSoto Explorer (KS)
March 23, 2006

Area residents familiar with past environmental remediation efforts at 
the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant won't see anything different when 
the cleanup resumes later this spring except its pace, the man who is 
heading up the cleanup effort for the plant's new owners said.

The federal government transferred the closed plant to Sunflower 
Redevelopment LLC, a partnership of the Denver-based International Risk 
Group and the Kansas City real estate company Kessinger/Hunter and Co., 
for its commitment to complete the environmental cleanup of the plant 
beyond the $110 million the Army will provide for remediation.

Mikkel Anderson, chief technical officer and founding partner of 
International Risk Group, said the guarantee of federal and private 
money dedicated to the cleanup means the end to the incremental, 
start-and-stop cleanup that characterized past remediation as the Army 
spent money allotted for portions of the job and then waited for 
Congress to provide more.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.desotoexplorer.com/section/news/story/5247

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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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