[CPEO-IRF] McClellan Air Force Base (CA) 62-acre "early" transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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