[CPEO-MEF] PCBs at Korean bases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Toxic Chemicals Detected in Returned US Bases'

By Jung Sung-ki
Korea Times
January 18, 2007

Some U.S. bases returned to South Korea last year contain dumped 
electronic transformers with toxic chemicals of polychlorinated 
biphenyls (PCBs) exceeding national environmental standards, a lawmaker 
said Thursday.

Rep. Woo Won-shik of the governing Uri Party said such contaminated 
transformers were detected in 10 out of 15 U.S. facilities handed over 
to South Korea under an agreement struck last July, citing a report by 
the Ministry of Environment.

PCBs were included in a list of toxic chemicals that the U.S. military 
had pledged to clean up before the base return process, Woo said. He is 
calling to nullify the base return pact and to renegotiate on the matter.

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For the entire article, see
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200701/kt2007011818200111990.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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