[CPEO-MEF] Dispute over Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agency challenges Navy on pollution
DISPUTE CENTERS ON MOFFETT'S HANGAR ONE

By Jessica Portner
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
February 24, 2005

The federal Environmental Protection Agency and state Regional Water
Quality Board are dragging the U.S. Navy to the table to resolve an
environmental dispute over toxic cleanup at Moffett Field, EPA officials
confirmed Wednesday.

The EPA contests the Navy's claim that the military is not responsible
for removing contaminants from inside the massive 1933 Hangar One, which
environmentalists hope could someday be refashioned into a theme park or
aerospace museum.

"I am pleased that the regulators are challenging the Navy," said Lenny
Siegel, director of Mountain View's Center for Public Environmental
Oversight, a watchdog group. "This is a building you can't tear down,
but you don't want it to sit there and leach contamination into the environment."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/peninsula/10978822.htm

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org
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