[CPEO-MEF] Santa Susana (CA) environmental review

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Santa Susana cleanup halted
DOE will do ordered environmental study

BY KERRY CAVANAUGH
Los Angeles Daily News
July 20, 2007

The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday that it will stop its 
controversial cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Lab and conduct a 
long-awaited comprehensive environmental review of the former nuclear 
research site.

The decision to abide by a recent court order means the department has 
stopped demolition of the last two buildings at the site for at least 
two years while the agency prepares an environmental impact statement.

A federal court judge in May said the department's cleanup plan for the 
site broke the law, and he ordered the agency to complete a detailed 
analysis of contamination at the site and how it will be removed.

Longtime lab watchdogs lauded the department's decision to comply with 
the judge's ruling.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6418711

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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