[CPEO-MEF] ECA and ELI Release Role of Local Goverments in Long-Term Stewardsh

[Aimee Houghton <aimeeh@cpeo.org>]

The following comes from the ECA (Energy Community Alliance listserve.
--Aimee


> "The Role of
> Local Governments in Long-Term Stewardship at DOE
> Facilities" 
> http://www.eli.org/store/rr01localDOE.htm
>
> At sites throughout the country the Department of Energy (DOE) is
> cleaning up the radioactive and chemical contamination legacy of
> nuclear weapons production. DOE expects to rely on local
> governments to implement essential elements of its plans for
> protecting the public from hazards that will remain after it
> completes cleanup activities at its facilities. 
>  
> DOE uses the term long-term stewardship to
> encompass the activities and mechanisms
> that will be used to protect the public from the remaining hazards
> at such sites. Local governments have the legal authority,
> responsibility, and experience in the types of functions that will
> need to be provided at these sites, such as land-use planning and
> control, protecting public health and safety, maintaining official
> records of land ownership, and providing information on health and
> safety to their citizens. This apparent congruence of need and
> capability is, for the most part, however, merely superficial.
>  
> In this report the Environmental Law Institute
> (ELI) and the Energy
> Communities Alliance (ECA) examine how local governments are only
> beginning to develop the capacity to apply their experience to the
> highly specialized types of environmental hazards that DOE will
> leave behind. Please see
> http://www.eli.org/store/rr01localDOE.htm
> for more information.
>  
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> Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) is the membership organization of local
> governments that are adjacent to or impacted by Department of Energy
> activities.  To add or remove your name from this list serve, please
> e-mail
> server@energyca.org.  For
> more information on ECA, visit the ECA Web Site at
> http://www.energyca.org.

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Aimee R. Houghton                                 

Associate Director, CPEO

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