[CPEO-IRF] Chanute Air Force Base (IL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Widespread cleanup efforts on horizon for Rantoul

By Anne Cook
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette (IL)
November 16, 2007

RANTOUL - U.S. Air Force site officials have nearly completed the 
investigation phase of the former Chanute Air Force base, and they're 
ready to start a widespread cleanup of the most contaminated sites there.

"This is a milestone," said Paul Carroll, an environmental coordinator 
for the Air Force, at the quarterly Restoration Advisory Board meeting. 
"But there's a lot of work remaining."

...

About two-thirds of the property has already been transferred to the 
village of Rantoul, and the remaining third remains in Air Force hands 
until it's cleaned up, although Carroll said some small parcels of that 
land are ready to transfer as soon as formalities are completed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/11/16/widespread_cleanup_efforts_on_horizon

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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