[CPEO-IRF] Badger (WI) ammo plant transfers planned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stakeholders celebrate Badger property's future

By Brian Bridgeford
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
May 1, 2006


TOWN OF SUMPTER — Federal officials hope to give new owners titles to 
3,000 acres of land at the obsolete Badger Army Ammunition Plant by 
September, a plant manager said Saturday. And work to clean up 
contamination by asbestos, lead and explosive chemicals on the site will 
continue until the area is cleared.

More than a dozen stakeholders � including federal property managers, 
town of Sumpter officials, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 
officials and Ho-Chunk Nation representatives — gathered at the plant 
for a meeting of the Badger Intergovernmental Group. The group is 
working to determine how land at the 7,300-acre site will be distributed 
to other users and released from federal ownership.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/index.php?ntid=82133&ntpid=1#
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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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