[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) court decision

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge orders study of field lab
Activists celebrate win in legal war with DOE

BY KERRY CAVANAUGH
Los Angeles Daily News
May 3, 2007

Five years after the Department of Energy adopted a controversial 
cleanup plan for its portion of the Santa Susana Field Lab, a judge 
ruled Wednesday that the plan violates federal law and that a thorough 
environmental survey of the former nuclear research site is needed 
before it can be declared safe.

The decision marked a major victory for activists and lab neighbors who 
have railed against the DOE's plan to leave 99 percent of the 
contaminated soil at the hilltop lab.

The decision also means the DOE, which had planned to complete its 
cleanup in the coming months, now must go back to the drawing board and 
cannot release the land for unrestricted use until a full environmental 
study is completed.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5805562

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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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