[CPEO-MEF] UXO Response...A Report to the Congressional DefenseCommittees

[StellaVB@aol.com]

DoD's FY 2000 Financial Statements provide estimates of the potential 
liability associated with UXO clean-up costs at closed, transferring and 
transferred ranges to be $14 billion.  DoD does not estimate UXO cleanup 
costs for active and inactive ranges unless constituents on those ranges 
are a danger to human health and the environment (e.g., contaminating an 
aquifer).  

In reviewing this document (found on CPEO's TechTree) and reading the
above section, it would appear to me that the first thing any branch of 
the military should do is to see whether a site fits the criteria listed 
above.  As a RAB member  for Camp Bonneville, this site was closed in 
'95, this criteria has not been of the utmost importance and the few 
wells that have been dug in recent times are not  enough to determine 
the extent of contamination to the aquifer below nor the migration of 
it.

It would seem, according to this document, that the first order of
business on these military sites is to determine whether there is 
contamination to an aquifer yet I do not see this happening around the 
nation, why?

Stella

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