[CPEO-MEF] Tanapag tank removal (Northern Marianas)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CNMI: EPA And DEQ Team Up On Tanapag Tank Removal

Pacific Magazine (HI)
April 14, 2006

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Marianna Islands Division of Environmental Quality will remove 
a number of old military above-ground oil storage tanks and associated 
contamination from Tanapag Village, CNMI beginning next week.

"This joint effort will benefit the Tanapag community by removing 
potential health hazards and will also train DEQ staff in planning, 
assessment, sampling, health and safety monitoring, cleanup and project 
management," said Michelle Rogow, the EPA Pacific Southwest Region's 
on-scene coordinator for the project. "This project highlights the 
cooperative efforts of EPA and DEQ to improve the Saipan environment."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pacificislands.cc/pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=21423

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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