[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats refuge

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dispute leaves Flats plan in flux
Mineral rights questions hold up conversion to wildlife refuge

By Todd Neff
Daily Camera (CO)
December 7, 2004

A dispute over mineral rights has blocked an agreement central to Rocky
Flats' transition from nuclear-weapons plant to wildlife refuge 18
months after it should have been signed. 

Without the agreement, the division of responsibility between the U.S.
Department of Energy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service remains
unclear, leaving in flux the future management of the land. 

There can be no legal transfer of Rocky Flats land to Fish and Wildlife,
and no Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge without the agreement. That
transfer is scheduled to happen at the end of 2006, once the $7.4
billion Superfund cleanup is complete. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_3380589,00.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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