Re: Oral Histories of Base Pollution

[Don Gray <don@eesi.org>]

In this connection it should be noted that the Community Environmental
Response Facilitation Act (CEREFA) amended Section 120(h)(4) of CERCLA
(Superfund)to require that any federal agency proposing to transfer out of
federal ownership any real property on which any hazardous substance had
been stored for more than one year, known to have been released or disposed
of, to take a number of steps to determine whether the property is
"uncontaminated". One of these required steps is to conduct "Interviews
with current or former employees involvd in oprations on the real
property." Since almost any closing military facility would fit the
description of such property, such interviews should have been conducted
and there should be a record of the contents of such interviews.

Don Gray