[CPEO-MEF] Women Voters: community needs more input on Moffett cleanup

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Women Voters: community needs more input on Moffett cleanup
Navy disagrees, says community has enough say in decisions
Publication Date: Friday, November 08, 2002
Faiza Hasan

After a year of controversial cleanup proposals and concern over human
health risks, the local League of Women Voters chapter is worried that
residents are being excluded from the government's plans to
decontaminate Moffett Field.

Voicing doubts about the effectiveness of the Restoration Advisory Board
(RAB)-- a group of individuals and organizations advising the Navy on
the environmental cleanup of the base -- the League of Women Voters of
Los Altos-Mountain View recently sent a letter to the Navy and NASA.

"The effort has been underway for six years and it is still quite a way
from understanding the contamination problems and how to resolve them,"
said Jane Turnbull, co-president of the League. "Granted, they are
extremely complex environment issues. But above and beyond that, by
looking at the functions of the RAB (we see) that individual agencies
are bringing their resources to it but they do not function in a
collaborative mode."

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.mv-voice.com/thisweek/2002_11_08.league.html

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