[CPEO-MEF] Andrews Air Force Base (MD) record of decision

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wing, EPA back plan to treat contaminated base site

Black Anthem
December 10, 2005

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md - The 89th Airlift Wing and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency signed a Record of Decision to address
historic contamination of groundwater at Fire Training Area No. 4 here
during a briefing of the base's Environmental Restoration Program at the
Maryland Department of the Environment headquarters in Baltimore Nov. 22.

Colonel John I. Pray Jr., 89th AW commander, signed the ROD with Tom
Voltaggio, EPA Region 3 deputy administrator. EPA Region 3 includes
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the
District of Columbia.

The Senior Partners meeting provided Air Force, EPA, MDE and Prince
George?s County Department of Health Department officials with the
status of the ERP, which includes Fire Training Area No. 4, a two-acre
site located in the southeast corner of the airfield east runway. Waste
petroleum products and solvents were released to a bermed area and
ignited from 1973 to 1980 at the site, according to a report on the Web
site, http://public.andrews.amc.af.mil/PA/env/public.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.blackanthem.com/scitech/military_2005121012.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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