From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 14 Jul 2007 00:58:55 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] McGuire Air Force Base (NJ) cleanup order |
EPA: Air Force needs to clean up contamination at McGuire By CHRIS NEWMARKER Associated Press Long Island Newsday July 13, 2007TRENTON, N.J. -- Federal environmental officials on Friday ordered the U.S. military to clean up PCBs, pesticides, metals and other contaminants at McGuire Air Force Base. The Environmental Protection Agency administrative order requires the Air Force to submit a plan, including a schedule, to remove the contaminants left at 41 areas on the 5-square-mile base during its more than half a century of operations. The EPA was forced to issue the order because it was unable reach a satisfactory agreement with the Air Force to clean up the base, according to EPA Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg. ... For the entire article, see http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--mcguirecleanup0713jul13,0,7855314.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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