[CPEO-MEF] "EPA prepares to lift lead ammo ban" (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA prepares to lift lead ammo ban

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times (MA)
June 21, 2007

BOURNE - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials are ready to 
allow a temporary suspension of the lead ammunition ban at Camp Edwards 
- pending last-minute suggestions or comments from Cape residents.

Last night, as EPA officials kicked off a two-week public comment period 
on the Massachusetts National Guard's request to use lead ammo at the 
base, some residents urged regulators to carefully watch how the 
military uses lead ammunition during a 17-month trial period that could 
start in August.

"We will definitely be back a year from now saying what worked and what 
didn't work," the EPA's Lynne Jennings told Cape residents last night at 
the Bourne Best Western.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070621/NEWS/706210320/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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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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