Santa Susana lawsuit planned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Groups Plan to Sue Agency Over Lab Cleanup
Environmentalists say the Energy Department would leave high levels of
radioactive material.

By Amanda Covarrubias
Los Angeles Times 
July 20, 2004

Two environmental groups announced Monday that they intended to sue the
Department of Energy for allegedly violating federal law in its cleanup of
nuclear and chemical contamination at Boeing's Rocketdyne field laboratory
near Chatsworth.

The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Committee to Bridge the Gap
say the Energy Department's cleanup plan for the site - where U.S. agencies
conducted nuclear research over four decades - would leave dangerous levels
of radioactive material and other toxic chemicals in the soil at the field
lab.

Energy Department officials have said that the site, where a nuclear
reactor meltdown occurred in 1959, would pose no significant threat to
human health or the environment after it is cleaned up to at least minimum
standards for radioactive contamination set by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. But critics and watchdog groups have demanded that a
full environmental impact review be conducted.

The Energy Department has 60 days to comply with the law or the groups will
file a lawsuit in federal court, said Howard Crystal, an attorney for the
Washington, D.C.-based council and Bridge the Gap, an anti-nuclear group
based in Los Angeles.

The outcome of a lawsuit could have implications far beyond the 2,700-acre
hilltop lab because the Energy Department operates many other contaminated
nuclear and chemical sites around the country.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-rocket20jul20,1,2809050.story?
coll=la-news-state


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