RE: [CPEO-MEF] Unexploded Arms Require Big Cleanup At 16,000 U.S. Sites

[Vernon Brechin <vbrechin@igc.org>]

The 16,000 figure, shown in the press release, was in error
but here is another figure that is worth looking into.
Below is a paragraph from the DOE -- Long-Term Stewardship
Strategic Plan -- draft - Version 2.0.

  "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, states,
  and local governments are grappling with issues
  related to the cleanup and application of
  institutional/land-use controls at over 400,000 sites
  to ensure that underutilized or abandoned property
  may be reused despite the associated environmental
  liabilities."

This paragraph is contained under a section heading covering
the scope of the problem.  I suspect the large figure
includes a full set of corrective action sites (CAS), as
opposed to corrective action units (CAU).  The set may
contain numerous other regulatory entities as well.  The
400,000 figure may have been used to suggest that the DOE's
100 to 200 likely LTS sites is small in comparison.

This draft report did not include any reference citations.
Perhaps, one of the CPEO readers can provide a citation for
this 400,000 figure.

This report can be viewed at:

"Department of Energy's Long-Term Stewardship Strategic Plan
-
Predecisional Draft Version 2.0," June 21, 2002.
http://ndep.nv.gov/lts/strategiplanrev2b.pdf
[39 Pages - 345KB]
[The 400,000 figure is at PDF Page 16 of 39]

Vernon Brechin
  Mountain View, CA

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