[CPEO-MEF] Partial de-listing at Otis (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Base slashes cleanup site list

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times
August 4, 2007

OTIS AIR BASE - Air Force officials can take a black Magic Marker to 
their to-do list.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to delete 61 out of 80 
areas from the list of potentially contaminated sites at the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation, according to a notice published in 
the Federal Register this week.

The areas coming off the base's Superfund list — which represent 482 
acres of land on the base — have either been cleaned to the satisfaction 
of environmental regulators or were found to not require cleanup work.

Military and EPA officials called the "de-listing" a milestone for the 
base cleanup, which is now in its third decade.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070804/NEWS/708040330/-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
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