Virgin Islands chem weapons site "OK"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Water Island land transfer has residents wary

Virgin Islands Daily News
By JEREMY W. PETERS 
June 10, 2004

After 50 years in the hands of the federal government, the last 200
acres of Water Island that the U.S. Interior Department controls could
be handed over to the territory as early as next month. 

But as the federal government completes the final stages of the
transfer, the local government has left many of its obligations in the
deal unfulfilled. 

Water Island residents, concerned that the land will pass to the local
government with so much work to be done, are calling on federal
government to hold local officials to their end of the bargain. 

Today, officials from the Army Corps of Engineers will present their
final report on the level of contamination from the chemical weapons
testing the U.S. Defense Department conducted on the island after World
War II. The report, which Interior Department and Corps of Engineers
officials have said proves the island is free of contamination, is the
last step the federal government has to take before it can deed Water
Island to the local government. 


for the entire article, see
http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=5811202

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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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