Posted by: Laura Olah,
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (www.cswab.org)
Subcommittee Hearing on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold
a hearing on Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room
2322 Rayburn House Office Building.
The hearing is entitled “Poisoned Patriots: Contaminated Drinking
Water at Camp Lejeune."
The purpose of this hearing is to examine issues arising
from the extensive, high-level contamination of drinking water at U.S. Marine
Corps Base Camp Lejeune. This is the first of a series of hearings the
Subcommittee plans to hold on environmental problems at Department of Defense
(DOD) facilities.
The hearing will include testimony from former Marine
Corps residents of Camp Lejeune who,
along with their families, drank the contaminated water, cooked their food in
it, and bathed in it. The Subcommittee will also receive testimony from
the Government agencies involved in dealing with the contamination, assessing
the adverse health effects, and investigating allegations of criminal
violations of Federal law, including the Marine Corps, the Department of the
Navy, ATSDR, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Government
Accountability Office (GAO).
For more information and to
hear the Live Web Audiocast, go to:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/membios/schedule.shtml
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Laura Olah, Executive Director
Citizens for Safe
Water Around Badger
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