[CPEO-MEF] No federal health study at Wyle's Norco site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. sends Norco back to the state

WYLE: California handles health studies, and the federal agency provides
funding, an official said.

By PAIGE AUSTIN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
September 18, 2004

NORCO - The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
announced Friday that it will deny Norco's request for a health study
that could determine whether a cancer cluster exists near Wyle Labs. 

The agency deferred to the California Department of Health Services,
which is already working to educate local physicians about the health
effects of toxic chemicals and to arrange stress counseling for the
neighbors of the Wyle facility, where a plume of underground pollution
has migrated off the property. The state agency has not yet committed to
doing a health study. 

Wyle Labs executives have maintained that there is no link between the
pollution and health problems experienced by people who live near the
facility. On Friday, the company announced that it has stopped all of
its testing activities and is getting ready to relocate to the former
Norton Air Force Base. 

For nearly 50 years, Wyle Labs conducted hazardous tests on missiles,
rockets and commercial products in Norco. The company has sold its
429-acre facility to housing developer The St. Clair Co., which wants to
build 372 homes on the site. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_cwyle18.a0ac1.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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