[CPEO-MEF] Cornhusker transfer authorized

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hall County authorizes accelerated CAAP land sales

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent (NE)
November 17, 2004

The Hall County board has OK'd an Army Corps of Engineers plan that
would accelerate remaining land sales at the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant.

But not before raising concerns that the Army properly clean the
property at some point in the future.

"It should be lily-white clean or it shouldn't be sold to anybody," said
Supervisor Dick Hartman.

The Army last week said it intends to clean the property to a
below-surface-level depth of one foot, instead of the four-foot practice
currently in place -- an announcement that drew strong criticism and
caution from the Environmental Protection Agency.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/111704/new_caap17.shtml

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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