[CPEO-MEF] "State Official supports flyover of Army plant"

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State official supports flyover of Army plant
By Dennis J. Carroll
The Hawk Eye 
http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln230510.html

With pressure mounting for a low-level flyover of the munitions plant in
Middletown, state radiation regulators Thursday are expected to repeat their
call for such a flyover to detect possible radiation hazards. 

Both of Iowa's U.S. senators, Republican Charles Grassley and Democrat Tom
Harkin, have urged the Army to allow specially equipped low-flying aircraft to
survey the entire 19,000-acre Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. 
"If it's as simple as having a flyover and the equipment is available, it would
be idiotic not to do it, in other words a no-brainer," Grassley said recently.
 
In addition, a March report by the federal Department of Health and Human
Services said there was insufficient information available to determine whether
former Atomic Energy Commission operations at the plant pose a current risk to
public health at the plant or in areas around it. 

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