[CPEO-MEF] Dugway (UT) bio-testing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military wants to renovate Dugway
Critics fear health risks from biological testing

By Stephen Speckman
Deseret Morning News
June 2, 2007

Citing a worldwide threat to the security of the United States from 
hostile nations, the Army wants to renovate Dugway Proving Ground's old 
Baker Laboratory to increase defense testing against biological agents.

The proposal and the Army's most recent environmental assessment, 
released last month, already are generating criticism from watchdog 
groups about what they say is Dugway officials' lack of openness about 
numerous health, safety and environmental issues related to use of the 
decommissioned lab, built in 1952 to develop biological weapons.

The Utah chapter of the Sierra Club and the Healthy Environment Alliance 
of Utah both sent comments in April in response to Dugway's draft 
environmental assessment of the project.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660226123,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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