[CPEO-MEF] Nebraska (Mead) Ordnance Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA wants to dig up, ship out ordnance-plant waste

BY ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS
Lincoln Journal Star (NE)
November 8, 2006

Mead-area residents and the general public are invited to a meeting 
tonight to discuss how to clean up radioactive and other hazardous waste 
at the University of Nebraska Agricultural Research and Development 
Center on the outskirts of town.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two possible 
solutions:  Dig up the waste, separate it, and ship it to several 
facilities for proper disposal, or leave it in place with a protective 
cap or cover and monitor it for many years.

Depending on which option the federal agency chooses, the cost could 
range from $5.7 million to $7.5 million.

EPA says its preference is to dig up the buried waste, separate it and 
transport it off site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/11/08/local/doc455155e240edf978742833.txt

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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