2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 17 May 2007 15:29:14 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] McClellan Air Force Base (CA) 62-acre "early" transfer
 
McClellan cleanup's a step closer

By Chris Bowman
Sacramento Bee (CA)
May 16, 2007

The Pentagon is relinquishing to private enterprise its ownership and cleanup authority of contaminated lands at the former McClellan Air Force Base, a national Superfund site.

Defense Department officials have agreed to pay for the private cleanup of a 62-acre contaminated parcel, the first in a series of privatization deals under negotiation with Sacramento County to hasten redevelopment of the 3,000-acre complex.

The $11.2 million agreement puts McClellan in line with Fort Ord on the Monterey coast to be the first of the nation's military Superfund sites to be put into private ownership in advance of environmental cleanup, federal and county officials said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/181649.html

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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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