[CPEO-MEF] Guard still fighting EPA at MMR

[joelf@cape.com]

Please post.

Here is the latest on Army National Guard efforts to over through EPA
Region 1 Administrative Order #4. The fourth paragraph refers to "an
assistant administrator" who is, in fact, Sylvia Lowrance, the national EPA
Chief of Enforcement, and the appropriate person to hear the appeal. In a
following message I shall send an extract of EPA Order #4, summarizing
previous EPA Orders and listing the 
explosive/propellant contaminants found at MMR as of January 1.


Guard still fighting order on base cleanup

 By KEVIN DENNEHY
 STAFF WRITER
 CAMP EDWARDS - Two months after the federal Environmental Protection
Agency issued its latest order in the cleanup of Camp Edwards, the National
Guard is still fighting it. In fact, this time they want to speak with the
boss. Guard officials this week sent a letter requesting a conference with
new EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman to discuss the latest order, which 
has to do with the use of an environmentally clean "detonation chamber."
In the meantime, the military asked out of a meeting with an assistant
administrator that had been scheduled for Wednesday. The administrative
order was the fourth issued by the environmental agency in the ongoing
cleanup of the Upper Cape base, a federal Superfund site. The government is
spending  millions of dollars to remove thousands of remaining mortars and
to clean contaminated water, both remnants of decades of military training.
 Federal environmental officials say the order, issued in January, would
give the military 
authority to destroy all munitions in the detonation chamber, which was
introduced on base last year.
For the rest of the story
please see:
www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/guardstill3.htm
-- 
Joel Feigenbaum
24 Pond View Drive
E. Sandwich MA 02537
(508)-833-0144


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