Wyle's Norco facility deferred from Superfund list

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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No Superfund for Wyle

CLEANUP: A federal agency declines to put the qualifying site on its
list, noting the state's role.


By JENNIFER BOWLES, PAIGE AUSTIN and BONNIE STEWART
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
July 31,. 2004

Soil and groundwater pollution at Wyle Laboratories in Norco is serious
enough to place it on the federal Superfund list of the nation's worst
toxic sites, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said Friday. 

However, because the state is overseeing the testing and cleanup of
pollution found at the plant, the federal agency is declining to place
the site on the list, said Dawn Richmond, EPA's site assessment manager.
The laboratory, over the past 47 years, has tested products for the
defense industry as well as electronics and components for space
shuttles and rocket engines. 

Still, residents who live near Wyle - and have blamed the facility for
their illnesses - greeted the announcement as vindication. They say the
company and some public officials for years have downplayed
contamination at Wyle. 

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for the entire article
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_wyle31.5820d.html

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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
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