[CPEO-MEF] Bayonne (NJ) Cleanup Agreement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The spin on the story is that the Local Redevelopment Authority
successfully pressured the Army to accept the deal, but it looks like
the type of early transfer agreement that the Army itself is pushing.
The acceptance of New Jersey standards, however, may prove significant.
- LS]

$11M MOT Cleanup Agreement Reached 

The Jersey Journal, 09/26/01

By Moses Yahaya
Journal staff writer 

  The Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority has convinced the U.S. Army
to commit to an environmental cleanup of contaminated land at the
Military Ocean Terminal - and it scored the contract for the project itself.

  The agreement calls for the Army to provide funds for the cleanup,
estimated to cost $11 million, and paves the way for transfer of
contaminated MOT parcels to the LRA by as early as January.

  Earlier this month, LRA Executive Director Nicholas Chiravalloti and
the authority's general counsel, Nancy Kist, met with Army officials at
the Pentagon to ratify the accord, known as the Environmental Services
Cooperative Agreement.

  The land will be cleaned to comply with New Jersey standards, which
are more stringent than federal requirements.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/news/jjournal/mot25.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View 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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