Delay in "reefing" aircraft carrier

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Deck being removed, carrier sinking off Pensacola still on hold

BILL KACZOR
Associated Press (Miami Herald)
August 17, 2004

PENSACOLA, Fla. - The USS Oriskany's wooden flight deck is being removed
because of PCB contamination, but other issues involving the toxic
material must yet be resolved before the retired aircraft carrier can be
sunk as an artificial reef, a Navy spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The Navy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state officials met
last week in Atlanta to begin that process.

The 888-foot ship would be the largest vessel ever purposely sunk as a reef.

Questions raised by EPA officials have indefinitely delayed plans to
sink the carrier in the Gulf of Mexico about 25 miles off Pensacola
Pass, said Pat Dolan of the Naval Sea Systems Command.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/9425478.htm

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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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