[CPEO-MEF] House hearings on Camp Lejeune and TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Investigative panel targeting pollution at military bases

By Darren Goode
Congress Daily/Government Executive
May 25, 2007

The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee 
will hold a hearing in June as part of its investigation of drinking 
water contamination at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune and more broadly on 
environmental problems at military bases.

The investigation is still taking shape -- and while it will focus on 
Camp Lejeune -- it also could probe military-controlled hazardous waste 
sites, an Energy and Commerce aide said. It might look at whether the 
Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water standard for 
trichloroethylene is stringent enough, the aide said.

TCE is an industrial solvent used as a metal parts degreaser and, along 
with perchlorate, has contaminated water at military sites. EPA 
officials have wanted to strengthen the TCE regulation but have met with 
resistance from the Pentagon. The subcommittee hearing has been 
tentatively set for June 12 and will likely be followed by other 
hearings, the committee aide said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0507/052507cdpm1.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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