Maine view on RRPI

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Military seeks EPA exemption

By BART JANSEN,
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
April 19, 2004


WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department wants to avoid laws governing air
pollution, toxic waste and Superfund cleanups at hundreds of military
bases, but opponents warn that the proposals before Congress threaten
the health of neighbors in Maine and across the country. Last year, the
Pentagon won exemptions from 30-year-old laws protecting endangered
species and marine mammals. This year, military officials are asking for
relief from the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act.

The military doesn't want a toxic-waste designation to shut down any of
its training areas.

"We as a department cannot wait for a train wreck," said Paul Mayberry,
the deputy undersecretary of defense for readiness. "Past court cases
have threatened to close down our military training, and that readiness
risk is unacceptable whether we are a nation at war or a nation
preparing for war."

But for three years, Congress has rejected the latest requests under the
argument that training hasn't been hindered. Maine's entire
congressional delegation - Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan
Collins, and Democratic Reps. Tom Allen and Mike Michaud - opposes all
the provisions.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/040419exemption.shtml

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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