[CPEO-MEF] [CPEO-MEf] Company wants help with cleaning up rocket fuel in Lake Me

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Company wants help with cleaning up rocket fuel in Lake Mead
Associated Press

1/11/2003 01:15 pm
The federal government should shoulder much of the responsibility for
cleaning up perchlorate that has tainted Lake Mead and water supplies
for 20 million people, the company that produced the rocket-fuel
ingredient near Henderson said in a letter to California Sen. Dianne
Feinstein.

"The U.S. government remained the end-user for nearly all of the
perchlorate produced at the plant until operations were discontinued in
1998,"wrote George Christiansen, vice president for safety and
environmental affairs for Kerr-McGee Corp., the Oklahoma-based parent
company of the chemical plant near Henderson.

"Although the U.S. government therefore should be principally
responsible for perchlorate found in groundwater affected by the plant,
the U.S. government so far has refused to accept financial
responsibility for the remediation work,"Christiansen said in the letter
delivered Friday to Feinstein, a Democrat.

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/01/11/31792.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News

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