[CPEO-IRF] Hunters Point Shipyard and the San Francisco 49ers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shipyard could be cleaned by 2012, Navy says
But spokesman says meeting 49ers' goal for new park would be hard

Robert Selna, Cecilia M. Vega
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
January 4, 2007

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's promise that toxic contamination at 
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard can be cleaned up in time for the 49ers to 
start play in a stadium there by the team's 2012 deadline would be 
difficult but not impossible to keep, Navy officials said Wednesday.

The Navy is in charge of decontaminating the former shipyard, which 
Newsom offered to the 49ers last week as a possible stadium site in 
hopes of persuading the team not to move to Santa Clara. The Navy built 
and repaired ships and conducted radiological experiments at the 
500-acre shipyard before closing it in 1974.

Team co-owner John York reacted skeptically to the mayor's idea, noting 
in a letter to Newsom that among other problems with the site, the 
cleanup has been fought over and delayed for years. York has said he 
wants his team out of Monster Park by 2012.

"I think the 2012 timetable is difficult, but I think that it can be 
done," Doug Gilkey, the Navy's shipyard base closure manager, said 
Wednesday. "Lots of details need to be worked out, but we're on the same 
page with the city that it's a distinct possibility."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/04/BAG31NCNU01.DTL

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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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