[CPEO-IRF] Missouri Minuteman Missile silos

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Missouri DNR and USAF Sign Minuteman Missile Silos Agreement
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency signed an agreement with the United States Air Force 
to provide long-term stewardship for 150 Minuteman II missile silos and 
15 missile launch facilities.

Kansas City infoZine
July 11, 2007


Jefferson City, MO - infoZine - These missile sites were part of the 
nation's defense program from the 1960s to the 1990s and were located 
throughout the western central portion of Missouri.

The sites were dismantled in the 1990s as part of the Strategic Arms 
Reduction Treaty signed with the former Soviet Union. During the first 
silo deactivation and implosions, polychlorinated bipheyls were found in 
waterproof coating of the silo headworks and underground storage tanks. 
By allowing contamination to remain at the sites, institutional controls 
were required in the Quitclaim deeds as property-use restrictions and 
covenants.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/23945/

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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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