[CPEO-MEF] Defense Department perchlorate guidance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Defense Department has issued a new "Policy on DoD Required Actions 
Related to Perchlorate." Signed by Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 
(Installations and Environment) Philip W. Grone on January 26, 2006, the 
policy may be downloaded from http://www.dodperchlorateinfo.net/. (See 
"News Announcements."

Based upon EPA's new guidance, it establishes 24 parts per billion as 
the Department's current level of concern for perchlorate. 
Disappointingly, the paragraph on Ranges seems to say that Defense 
components still won't sample on operational - that is, active and 
inactive, but not closed, transferred, and transferring - ranges in most 
situations. The Department sought, in its Readiness and Range 
Preservation Initiative, to make this position legal. But Congress 
rejected the proposal.

Lenny
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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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