Vieques cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Vieques cleanup promises to be long, hard process 

By John McPhaul
Caribbean Business 
June 11, 2004

As the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) reviews Gov. Calderon?s
request to put Vieques and Culebra on the National Priority (Superfund)
List the Vieques community is gearing up for a long struggle to ensure
the Navy cleans up its former lands as completely as possible. 

Gov. Calderon used her one-time authority to request the inclusion of
Vieques and Culebra on the Superfund List, which gives the EPA broad
authority to compel cleanup of lands, without going through the
cumbersome process of ranking the sites. 

Last week, community and labor groups set up a three-day camp at the
Navy?s former live-bombing range on the eastern tip of the island, the
scene of a year-long occupation following the April 19, 1999 death of
security guard David Sanes during a bombing practice accident. 

The purpose of the camp, which the groups plan to set up periodically,
was to demand the return of the property to the community and the full
cleanup of the many contaminated areas in former Navy lands, according
to protest leader Robert Rabin, of the Committee for the Rescue &
Development of Vieques. 

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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>
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