[CPEO-MEF] Starmet (Concord, MA) uranium cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army handed revised bill
Starmet cleanup cost up by $3.1m

By Davis Bushnell
Boston Globe
June 19, 2005

CONCORD -- The estimated cost of removing more than 3,700 barrels of 
depleted uranium from Starmet Corp.'s Superfund site in West Concord has 
now increased by $3.1 million, according to state Department of 
Environmental Protection officials.

As a result, according to department spokesman Joseph Ferson, the DEP 
sent a June 13 letter to the Army asking it to pick up the revised tab 
of $8.3 million for removing those barrels, a step considered crucial to 
cleaning up the 46-acre property off Route 62.

The Army, which agreed in April 2004 to pay for removing and disposing 
of the barrels containing low levels of radioactive material, has 20 
days to reply to the request for more money, Ferson said. The barrels 
are stored in Starmet buildings.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/19/army_handed_revised_bill/

--
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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