[CPEO-MEF] Starmet Corp. (MA) DU cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army agrees to pay more for cleanup

By Davis Bushnell
Boston Globe 
July 14, 2005

The removal of more than 3,700 barrels of depleted uranium from Starmet
Corp.'s Superfund site in West Concord will begin by late summer,
according to the state Department of Environmental Protection, which was
notified this week that the US Army will pay an additional $3.1 million
to rid the property of this material.

The department, spokesman Joseph Ferson said, is working out contractual
details with Salt Lake City-based Envirocare of Utah Inc., which, he
noted, has handled a number of similar projects in Colorado and Utah.

It's expected that an agreement will be ironed out within two weeks,
after which Envirocare will go on-site, take an inventory of the barrels
and then prepare a timetable for removing and disposing of them, Ferson
said. He said the project will probably be completed in six months.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/14/army_agrees_to_pay_more_for_cleanup/

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