[CPEO-MEF] Group wants Mass. armory assessed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group wants Armory tested

By Emelie Rutherford
MetroWest Daily News (MA)
November 5, 2004

NATICK -- A group weighing if the town should buy the closed National
Guard armory wants an environmental assessment done on the downtown site
before the state auctions it. A state official, though, predicts the
request will be nixed. 

The Armory Master Plan Task Force decided Wednesday to recommend the
town buy the armory if -- and only if -- the state allows what is called
a 21E test for contaminants before the property is sold and the land is
deemed clean, chairman Tim Collins said. 

Yet Kevin Flanigan, a deputy director at the state Division of Capital
Asset Management, said office policy is to sell them "as is." 

 "We will certainly review the request, but the bottom line is we've
sold all the other armories without having such investigation done so I
don't think we would be inclined to grant that," Flanigan said. Doing
so, he said, would reveal any problems to potential bidders. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=82293

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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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