Re: [CPEO-MEF] Cornhusker UXO

["Stella Bourassa" <Stellalogic@cfl.rr.com>]

Will anyone please explain to me the 'point' of having an 'environmental
protection service' that cannot do it's job when it comes to the military?
I am not being sarcastic, I would really like to know 'what is the point?'
It seems to waste taxpayers dollars and only adds frustration to an already
frustrating situation!

Stella
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lenny Siegel" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: "Military Environmental Forum" <military@list.cpeo.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:17 PM
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Cornhusker UXO


> EPA 'disturbed' by Army cleanup plan for Cornhusker site
>
> By Tracy Overstreet
> Grand Island Independent
> December 17, 2004
>
> The Environmental Protection Agency is accusing the U.S. Army of trying
> to strategize its way out of proper cleanup of contaminated soil near
> Grand Island -- but the EPA may be powerless to stop what's happening.
>
> The accusations came in a Dec. 14 letter from Gene Gunn, chief of the
> federal facilities/special emphasis branch of the Superfund Division in
> Kansas City, to Col. Jeffrey Bedey, district engineer of the Omaha
> District Army Corps of Engineers.
>
> "The purpose of this letter is to express the Environmental Protection
> Agency's grave concern regarding the Army's FY (fiscal year) 2005
> disposal strategy for Tracts 19, 20 and 21 at the Cornhusker Army
> Ammunition Plant," Gunn wrote.
>
> "The Army's proposal to radically cut back on the cleanup of unexploded
> ordnance (UXO) in order to quickly dispose of the remaining property
> generates a number of troublesome issues and attempts to unilaterally
> restructure the cleanup under the Federal Facility Agreement," he wrote.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
> http://www.theindependent.com/stories/121704/new_epa17.shtml
>
> -- 
>
>
> 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
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