[CPEO-MEF] Judge sides with community at Jefferson Proving Ground (IN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge: Army taking too long on JPG plan

By: Peggy Vlerebome
Madison Courier (IN)
April 4, 2005

A federal administrative judge says that Save the Valley and the people
who live around Jefferson Proving Ground have had to wait too long to
find out what the Army intends to do about the radioactive depleted
uranium it left behind after testing munitions.

The judge, Alan S. Rosenthal, wrote in a memo Thursday that the
"responsibility for this state of affairs cannot be laid at the doorstep
of (Save the Valley). Rather, it has been brought about by the conduct
of the (Army) over the course of the past five years, conduct that has
received to a significant extent the seeming indulgence of the (Nuclear
Regulatory Commission) staff."

Rosenthal, who is with the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Panel, wrote the memo to bring his concerns to the attention of the
appointed commission. He wrote that he and Paul B. Abramson, special
assistant and also an administrative judge, do not have the authority to
tell the Army or the NRC staff what to do. The Army had obtained a
license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in order to test depleted
uranium at JPG.

The Army has changed its approach for dealing with the depleted uranium
several times, and the NRC staff has repeatedly said it needs more
information from the Army for the various proposals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.madisoncourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=253&ArticleID=23183

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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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