[CPEO-MEF] Maritime Administration ship-disposal program overhaul

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rusty ships to stay put
Maritime chief delays further scrapping

By THOMAS PEEL/MediaNews Group
Vallejo Times Herald (CA)
March 31, 2007

The head of the U.S. Maritime Administration has promised an immediate 
overhaul of the agency's ship-disposal program to include environmental 
safeguards for the maintenance and dismantling of decaying vessels now 
stored in Suisun Bay and elsewhere across the country.

"We need to maintain vessels in a way that protects the environment. I 
have directed the staff to look at everything and develop a uniform 
system,' said the administrator, Sean Connaughton. "We have to make sure 
that ship recycling is done in a safe manner."

No more ships will leave the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet or similar fleets 
in Virginia and Texas until such a system is in place, Connaughton said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_5330546

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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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