[CPEO-MEF] "Burning Ravenna Arsenal [OH] unlikely"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Burning Ravenna Arsenal unlikely
EPA group against use of fire because of PCBs in old paint

By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
September 1, 2006

The U.S. Army is likely to scrap its plans to burn old Portage County 
buildings containing paints with high levels of polychlorinated 
biphenyls (PCBs).

That decision comes in the wake of what some are calling a landmark 
decision by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency work group that came 
out against such burning at military facilities.

Burning five large buildings at the closed Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant 
east of Ravenna is "nowhere... a big zero for us," said Army spokesman 
Irving Venger. "It's not going to happen. It's a dead issue."

It is likely that plans to test paint samples from the arsenal at a 
Battelle laboratory in Columbus will be scrapped because they are no 
longer needed, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/15414883.htm

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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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