Re: [CPEO-MEF] Defense memo on Perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

I've learned that the Defense Department memo on perchlorate sampling,
which I posted on July 20, 2002, is the original DRAFT version sent by
the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the armed services for
coordination.  The services have provided comments, and they are being
considered and worked into the document.  Then it will have another
round of coordination.  It is unlikely to be signed out before the end
of August, 2002.

Rather than ask for critiques of the document, Id like to ask a broad
question: How should the Defense Department and other responsible
parties at sites contaminated with perchlorate deal with that
contamination, given that there is no promulgated health-based cleanup
standard for the compound?

Lenny

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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