[CPEO-MEF] Santa Susana Lab (CA) runoff

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Boeing says runoff rules too strict
The company will ask the state to ease limits on pollution at its former 
Simi Hills lab. Critics say it could be an effort to thwart a federal probe.

By Amanda Covarrubias
Los Angeles Times
December 12, 2006

Boeing Co. on Wednesday will seek to ease limits on runoff pollution at 
its former nuclear research and rocket testing lab in the Simi Hills 
amid a criminal investigation into whether the company violated 
clean-water standards there.

Boeing wants the State Water Resources Control Board to amend a permit 
that allows the company to discharge industrial wastewater and surface 
storm water from the laboratory.

As part of that request, the company said it had received subpoenas from 
a federal grand jury that was looking at whether it violated the federal 
Clean Water Act in the discharge of industrial wastewater and surface 
storm water from the hilltop laboratory.

The water contamination has been a controversial issue for years, with 
neighbors contending that the field lab allowed water tainted with 
chemicals used at the rocket lab to run into the local watershed and, 
ultimately, to the Pacific Ocean.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lab12dec12,0,6195876.story?coll=la-home-locaL

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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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