[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats (CO) oversight board

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Citizens will be allowed on Rocky Flats oversight board

By Todd Neff
Boulder Daily Camera (CO)
May 3, 2005

Sometimes it takes a higher power to get people to play nice.

A letter sent to Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman by U.S. Sens. Wayne 
Allard and Ken Salazar and U.S. Reps. Mark Udall and Bob Beauprez has 
put an end to nearly a year of bickering among the two groups currently 
overseeing Rocky Flats.
	
The Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments and the Rocky Flats 
Citizens Advisory Board, which together oversee the $7 billion cleanup 
of the former nuclear-weapons plant, had disagreed what role citizens 
should play on the local stakeholder organization that will monitor 
Rocky Flats starting some time next year.

The letter, copied to both groups, says voting should not be restricted 
to officials from local governments.

"While we believe local governments should be a significant majority in 
the local stakeholder organization, we support the inclusion of 
non-elected officials," it said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/science/article/0,1713,BDC_2432_3747715,00.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
http://www.cpeo.org


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