[CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards (MA) bullet traps

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Plan to fire lead bullets at Cape base on target

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times (MA)
July 12, 2007

FALMOUTH - If all goes as planned, this time next year three ranges will 
ring with gunfire at Camp Edwards.

Yesterday, Guard leaders announced their intention to use $1 million 
from Congress to add two additional bullet traps at the small arms 
ranges at the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

The news came as the Guard fulfilled one of the final steps to lift a 
decade-long lead ammunition ban at the base. At a meeting yesterday in 
Falmouth, the state Environmental Management Commission amended a rule 
that had banned lead ammo at Camp Edwards.

The commission - which includes three of the state's top environmental 
leaders - also approved the Guard's detailed range operation plans for 
Tango range, which has a bullet trap to prevent toxic lead ammunition 
from entering the environment. But federal Environmental Protection 
Agency leaders still must give the Guard the final nod before live fire 
can begin on a trial basis later this summer. That approval is expected 
to come by the end of next week, according to the Lynne Jennings of the EPA.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/NEWS/707120340/-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
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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